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