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