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