Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Starting a thread
Concentration on the job
Wool half spun
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A happy weaver
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning by hand
All keeping warm in the cold.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
The raw material
Weaving in progress
Yarns ready for weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
Rope making
spinning by hand
Drawing silk threads
Spinning by hand
Spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Rope making by hand
Inserting a thread
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hand spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Knitting
Spinning
Hand spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
A proper sheepskin coat!
Concentration!
Felt hat making
Shaping the hat
Wool waiting spinning
The pattern is progressing
wool spinning
The pile is going down
Drawing silk into skeins
Wool spinning
Wool working or rope making?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A historical loom?
Finished felt hats
Weaving
Unravelling the threads
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Close up of the spinning process
A fiddly job
Spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Spinning and winding wool
Silk being drawn into yarn
Unwinding the silk strands
Inserting a coloured thread
Knitting?
Hand spinning
Rope making the hard way
Drawing the silk threads
A silk moth.
Yarns ready for weaving
Pressing the felt
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