Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning and winding wool
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A fiddly job
Spinning
Felt slippers
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaving
The raw material
Wool spinning the traditional way.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Concentration!
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Spinning wool by hand
Weaving
Close up of the spinning process
Wool spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
Wool spinning by hand
Felt working
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
A wool carder
Inserting a coloured thread
Wool spinning by hand
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A silk moth.
Soaking the silk cocoons
A wool winder
Making a felt hat
Weaving
The pile is going down
Knitting
Knitting?
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Rope making the hard way
Weaving in progress
Starting a thread
A sheepskin collar and coat
There is someone inside that!
A lot of wool to be spun
Pressing the felt
Unravelling the threads
Silk being drawn into yarn
Unwinding the silk strands
A happy weaver
Hat moulds
Soaking the silk cocoons
All keeping warm in the cold.
Silk cocoons
Weaver at work
Hand spinning
Spinning
Weaving in progress
A flock of sheep
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