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