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