Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Felt slippers
Hat moulds
There is a thread of some sort there.
Weaving in progress
A fiddly job
Felt hat making
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
All keeping warm in the cold.
Spinning
Inserting a thread
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
The pattern is progressing
spinning by hand
Wool working or rope making?
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Hand spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Wool awaiting spinning
Knitting
Hand spinning
Weaving tools in use
A wool carder
Intricate work
A flock of sheep
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Drawing silk into skeins
A wool winder
Starting a thread
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