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