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