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