Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool awaiting spinning
The sheep look neater!
Soaking the silk cocoons
Yarns ready for weaving
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk cocoons
A flock of sheep
Weaving in progress
Intricate work here.
Hand spinning
Rope making
Rope making by hand
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Silk cocoons
Knitting?
A wintry scene
Weaving in progress
Unwinding the silk strands
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Wool spinning by hand
A lot of wool to be spun
spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Starting a thread
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Spinning by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool half spun
Pressing the felt
Weaving
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Teasing thread
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Felt slippers
A silk moth.
Rope making the hard way
Knitting
Weaving tools in use
Rope making by hand
Full length sheepskin coat
Soaking the silk cocoons
Finished felt hats
Hand spinning
Spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
All keeping warm in the cold.
The raw material
Close up of the spinning process
Hat moulds
A sheepskin collar and coat
Hand spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Gathering something, but what?
A wool winder
Spinning
The pile is going down
Intricate work
Concentration on the job
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