Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool half spun
Wool awaiting spinning
A wool carder
Wool waiting spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Concentration on the job
Pressing the felt
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Spinning and winding wool
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
The raw material
Knitting?
A wintry scene
Yarns ready for weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
There is someone inside that!
wool spinning
Weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
The pile is going down
Weaver at work
Teasing thread
Intricate work
A happy weaver
Weaving
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
Spinning
Gathering something, but what?
Close up of the spinning process
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Inserting a thread
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Silk being drawn into yarn
spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A historical loom?
Dressed for the weather.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Silk larva and the cocoon
A lot of wool to be spun
A fiddly job
Starting a thread
A proper sheepskin coat!
Weaving
Unravelling the threads
Spinning wool by hand
Hand spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
There was a rope walk in the background here.
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