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