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