Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning wool by hand
Silk cocoons
A wintry scene
Hand spinning
Concentration!
Felt slippers
A historical loom?
Wool spinning by hand
Starting a thread
Balls of newly spun wool
A silk moth.
Hat moulds
Inserting a coloured thread
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Drawing silk threads
Hat moulds
Spinning and winding wool
Rope making
Intricate work here.
Weaving tools in use
Wool spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
A proper sheepskin coat!
Hand spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaver at work
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Gathering something, but what?
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Silk larva and the cocoon
The pattern is progressing
The raw material
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