Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
The sheep look neater!
Making a felt hat
A silk moth.
Drawing the silk threads
The pattern is progressing
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Unwinding the silk strands
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
A lot of wool to be spun
Felt hat making
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Unravelling the threads
Pressing the felt
Wool working or rope making?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning
Felt working
Spinning wool by hand
Close up of the spinning process
Drawing silk into skeins
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making
There is a thread of some sort there.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Concentration on the job
Gathering something, but what?
Spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning by hand
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving tools in use
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Silk cocoons
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
Soaking the silk cocoons
A fiddly job
Concentration!
Wool spinning
Weaving
Full length sheepskin coat
Intricate work
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