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