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