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