Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A wool winder
The sheep look neater!
Felt slippers
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool waiting spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Starting a thread
Weaving
Weaving in progress
Intricate work here.
Gathering something, but what?
Spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Rope making the hard way
Wool working or rope making?
The pile is going down
Knitting?
A historical loom?
Felt working
Teasing thread
Drawing the silk threads
A flock of sheep
Hand spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Rope making by hand
Spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
There is someone inside that!
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Silk cocoons
Weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Hand spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Many threads being drawn into one
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Spinning
Unravelling the threads
Weaver at work
Weaving in progress
A fiddly job
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool spinning by hand
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