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