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