Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning and winding wool
Wool spinning by hand
Full length sheepskin coat
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Soaking the silk cocoons
The pattern is progressing
Keeping warm with the sheep
Rope making by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
wool spinning
Starting a thread
Weaving
A proper sheepskin coat!
Felt working
There is a thread of some sort there.
Knitting?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Concentration on the job
Spinning
Hat moulds
A happy weaver
Yarns ready for weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Silk cocoons
Close up of the spinning process
Weaving tools in use
Felt hat making
Teasing thread
Felt slippers
Concentration!
Felt slippers
All keeping warm in the cold.
Wool spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Finished felt hats
Spinning by hand
Dressed for the weather.
Unravelling the threads
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
A flock of sheep
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hand spinning
Weaving
A historical loom?
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Spinning
A wool winder
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Gathering something, but what?
Inserting a thread
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