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