Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Making a felt hat
A wool carder
A happy weaver
Wool working or rope making?
A fiddly job
A wool winder
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Spinning
Finished felt hats
Spinning
Felt slippers
Spinning and winding wool
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Teasing thread
Weaving
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Close up of the spinning process
A historical loom?
Weaving in progress
wool spinning
Hat moulds
Balls of newly spun wool
Spinning wool by hand
A sheepskin collar and coat
Drawing silk threads
Inserting a coloured thread
Hand spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
The pile is going down
Felt working
Intricate work here.
Concentration on the job
Wool spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A flock of sheep
The raw material
Felt hat making
Spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Weaving
Weaving in progress
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Weaver at work
Yarns ready for weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Drawing the silk threads
Unravelling the threads
Inserting a thread
Wool awaiting spinning
Teasing a thread of some sort
Knitting
Full length sheepskin coat
Silk cocoons
Unwinding the silk strands
Wool half spun
Spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Wool spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
Wool spinning by hand
Gathering something, but what?
Starting a thread
A wintry scene
A proper sheepskin coat!
Dressed for the weather.
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Pressing the felt
Rope making
Knitting?
Yarns ready for weaving
There is someone inside that!
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt slippers
Spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Shaping the hat
Soaking the silk cocoons
The sheep look neater!
Hand spinning
spinning by hand
Wool waiting spinning
Hat moulds
Rope making by hand
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Intricate work
There is a thread of some sort there.
Rope making the hard way
Silk cocoons
Weaving tools in use
All keeping warm in the cold.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning
Weaving
Silk being drawn into yarn
Hand spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A silk moth.
Concentration!
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Soaking the silk cocoons
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