Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Unravelling the threads
Drawing silk threads
Yarns ready for weaving
Hat moulds
Concentration on the job
wool spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
Yarns ready for weaving
Keeping warm with the sheep
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Inserting a thread
Hand spinning
Wool waiting spinning
Wool half spun
Rope making by hand
A wool carder
Teasing a thread of some sort
There is a thread of some sort there.
Weaving
Knitting?
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Drawing silk into skeins
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Weaver at work
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Intricate work
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A historical loom?
Felt slippers
Shaping the hat
Weaving tools in use
Soaking the silk cocoons
All keeping warm in the cold.
Spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
Felt hat making
Spinning
The pile is going down
A happy weaver
Soaking the silk cocoons
Concentration!
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool awaiting spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning
Dressed for the weather.
Rope making by hand
Felt slippers
spinning by hand
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