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