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