Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Knitting?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Hat moulds
Yarns ready for weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Making a felt hat
Spinning by hand
Weaving
Hand spinning
Spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
Shaping the hat
Spinning
Wool spinning by hand
The pattern is progressing
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Concentration!
Unravelling the threads
Felt slippers
Balls of newly spun wool
Knitting
Silk cocoons
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Wool half spun
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hand spinning
Concentration on the job
Hand spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Starting a thread
Many threads being drawn into one
Weaving
Weaving tools in use
Felt slippers
Soaking the silk cocoons
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Silk cocoons
Intricate work
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning
Inserting a thread
Finished felt hats
Hand spinning
A wintry scene
Wool working or rope making?
Unwinding the silk strands
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Drawing silk threads
A flock of sheep
spinning by hand
Spinning
Hat moulds
Pressing the felt
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
There is a thread of some sort there.
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