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