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