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