Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Wool spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A lot of wool to be spun
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning wool by hand
All keeping warm in the cold.
Starting a thread
Yarns ready for weaving
Balls of newly spun wool
wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Felt working
There is a thread of some sort there.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Concentration!
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Felt slippers
Felt hat making
Hand spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Making a felt hat
A wool carder
The raw material
Spinning by hand
Shaping the hat
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning
Hand spinning
Spinning by hand
Rope making
Spinning
Rope making by hand
spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
Hat moulds
The pattern is progressing
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Keeping warm with the sheep
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaving in progress
Full length sheepskin coat
Spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Knitting?
Hand spinning
Weaving tools in use
A flock of sheep
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Any ideas what he is doing here?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning
Dressed for the weather.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Concentration on the job
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