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