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