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