Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Many threads being drawn into one
There is someone inside that!
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Concentration on the job
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Spinning by hand
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
All keeping warm in the cold.
Starting a thread
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Concentration!
Hat moulds
Weaving
Rope making the hard way
Wool spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Gathering something, but what?
Intricate work
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Teasing thread
Spinning wool by hand
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Keeping warm with the sheep
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning
Shaping the hat
Balls of newly spun wool
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Felt hat making
Weaving
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Weaver at work
Drawing the silk threads
Felt slippers
A flock of sheep
Silk larva and the cocoon
Dressed for the weather.
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