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