Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Wool spinning by hand
A lot of wool to be spun
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Felt slippers
Wool spinning by hand
The raw material
Wool working or rope making?
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Unravelling the threads
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hand spinning
Spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A wool carder
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Rope making by hand
Concentration on the job
Hand spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Rope making by hand
Dressed for the weather.
Teasing thread
Silk being drawn into yarn
The pattern is progressing
Knitting
Spinning by hand
Rope making
Wool waiting spinning
Hand spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A wintry scene
Unwinding the silk strands
Hat moulds
Yarns ready for weaving
Weaving
Concentration!
Spinning wool by hand
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
All keeping warm in the cold.
Wool spinning
A silk moth.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Felt working
Knitting?
Drawing silk into skeins
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Gathering something, but what?
A fiddly job
Inserting a thread
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaving
Close up of the spinning process
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Full length sheepskin coat
Silk cocoons
Rope making the hard way
Wool half spun
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