Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Knitting?
Drawing the silk threads
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Silk larva and the cocoon
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving
Weaver at work
Unwinding the silk strands
A happy weaver
Rope making the hard way
A historical loom?
Rope making by hand
The pattern is progressing
Unravelling the threads
Close up of the spinning process
A wool winder
Balls of newly spun wool
Silk being drawn into yarn
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A silk moth.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Full length sheepskin coat
Spinning
Felt hat making
Yarns ready for weaving
The pile is going down
Wool half spun
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
There is someone inside that!
Spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A proper sheepskin coat!
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Gathering something, but what?
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Silk cocoons
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Teasing a thread of some sort
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Knitting
Shaping the hat
Silk cocoons
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
Many threads being drawn into one
Weaving
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