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