Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Weaving tools in use
wool spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A happy weaver
Knitting
Felt hat making
Silk larva and the cocoon
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Weaver at work
Intricate work
The raw material
Weaving in progress
Weaving in progress
Concentration!
Weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Spinning by hand
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A wool carder
Gathering something, but what?
Wool waiting spinning
A silk moth.
Wool spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Pressing the felt
Teasing a thread of some sort
Close up of the spinning process
Wool spinning
Intricate work here.
Felt slippers
Teasing thread
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Silk cocoons
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Full length sheepskin coat
Wool half spun
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning
The pile is going down
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Rope making by hand
Finished felt hats
Felt working
A historical loom?
Concentration on the job
Wool spinning by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
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