Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving in progress
Dressed for the weather.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Finished felt hats
Hand spinning
Wool half spun
Pressing the felt
A wool carder
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Keeping warm with the sheep
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Silk cocoons
Concentration on the job
Teasing a thread of some sort
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Felt working
wool spinning
Felt hat making
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Unravelling the threads
Rope making
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Close up of the spinning process
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaving tools in use
Spinning by hand
A proper sheepskin coat!
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hat moulds
Unwinding the silk strands
Full length sheepskin coat
Drawing the silk threads
Balls of newly spun wool
There was a rope walk in the background here.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Wool awaiting spinning
Weaver at work
Making a felt hat
Intricate work
Intricate work here.
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