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