Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A happy weaver
The raw material
The sheep look neater!
A fiddly job
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A flock of sheep
Knitting?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A wintry scene
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Dressed for the weather.
Wool waiting spinning
A silk moth.
Wool spinning
Silk cocoons
Silk cocoons
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Starting a thread
Unravelling the threads
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving tools in use
A historical loom?
Felt slippers
The pattern is progressing
Hand spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Spinning by hand
Rope making the hard way
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Knitting
Soaking the silk cocoons
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
Intricate work
The pile is going down
Weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Weaver at work
Hand spinning
Drawing silk threads
Weaving
Gathering something, but what?
Concentration on the job
spinning by hand
Pressing the felt
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Weaving in progress
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool spinning
Wool half spun
Rope making by hand
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Keeping warm with the sheep
Felt working
Hand spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Hat moulds
Spinning
Felt slippers
Intricate work here.
Spinning
Wool spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Rope making by hand
Spinning by hand
There is someone inside that!
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Weaving in progress
Finished felt hats
Inserting a coloured thread
Shaping the hat
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving
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