Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Hand spinning
A wool winder
Concentration!
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Yarns ready for weaving
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Weaving in progress
Silk cocoons
Concentration on the job
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Spinning
Intricate work here.
Inserting a coloured thread
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Felt slippers
He looks warmer than the photographer.
There is a thread of some sort there.
Hand spinning
Wool half spun
Gathering something, but what?
Spinning
Weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Silk being drawn into yarn
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Hat moulds
Spinning and winding wool
Teasing thread
Yarns ready for weaving
A wintry scene
The sheep look neater!
Spinning wool by hand
A happy weaver
Drawing silk into skeins
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Shaping the hat
A wool carder
A proper sheepskin coat!
Drawing silk threads
Many threads being drawn into one
The raw material
Rope making
Inserting a thread
Making a felt hat
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A silk moth.
A fiddly job
The pattern is progressing
All keeping warm in the cold.
spinning by hand
A historical loom?
Weaving tools in use
Balls of newly spun wool
Hat moulds
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