Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Inserting a coloured thread
Wool working or rope making?
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Wool waiting spinning
Felt hat making
Soaking the silk cocoons
Shaping the hat
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool spinning by hand
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Spinning
Weaving in progress
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Felt slippers
Rope making by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Concentration on the job
Pressing the felt
Spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Hat moulds
Felt slippers
Weaving
A proper sheepskin coat!
A flock of sheep
Inserting a thread
Balls of newly spun wool
spinning by hand
Many threads being drawn into one
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Starting a thread
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning by hand
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