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