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