Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A flock of sheep
All keeping warm in the cold.
Wool working or rope making?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Intricate work here.
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Rope making by hand
Wool half spun
Intricate work
Drawing the silk threads
wool spinning
Wool spinning
Weaver at work
Spinning
Starting a thread
Wool awaiting spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
The pile is going down
Yarns ready for weaving
Felt working
A happy weaver
Spinning wool by hand
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A historical loom?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Shaping the hat
Gathering something, but what?
Dressed for the weather.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Weaving
Felt slippers
Knitting
Felt hat making
Finished felt hats
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Weaving in progress
A proper sheepskin coat!
Spinning by hand
The pattern is progressing
Balls of newly spun wool
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Inserting a thread
Hat moulds
He looks warmer than the photographer.
There is someone inside that!
Felt slippers
Weaving in progress
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Silk being drawn into yarn
Teasing thread
A silk moth.
spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Close up of the spinning process
Rope making
Hand spinning
Unravelling the threads
Weaving tools in use
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