Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Inserting a coloured thread
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Spinning and winding wool
Starting a thread
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning by hand
Silk cocoons
Weaving tools in use
There is someone inside that!
A lot of wool to be spun
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Teasing thread
Concentration on the job
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Unravelling the threads
A fiddly job
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Drawing silk threads
Wool spinning
A wool winder
Wool half spun
Unwinding the silk strands
Keeping warm with the sheep
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
There is a thread of some sort there.
Balls of newly spun wool
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
The pile is going down
A happy weaver
Spinning wool by hand
Felt working
Gathering something, but what?
Silk being drawn into yarn
Felt hat making
Hand spinning
spinning by hand
Wool waiting spinning
Weaving in progress
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Rope making by hand
Hat moulds
Yarns ready for weaving
Close up of the spinning process
A wool carder
Yarns ready for weaving
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