Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hand spinning
Weaving
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Teasing a thread of some sort
Finished felt hats
Inserting a coloured thread
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaver at work
Dressed for the weather.
A historical loom?
There is a thread of some sort there.
Inserting a thread
Hand spinning
Starting a thread
Felt working
A happy weaver
Unravelling the threads
Keeping warm with the sheep
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Hat moulds
The raw material
A wintry scene
Felt slippers
Wool spinning by hand
Silk cocoons
Full length sheepskin coat
A wool carder
Many threads being drawn into one
A wool winder
Weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
Felt slippers
Making a felt hat
A silk moth.
Hand spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Rope making by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
Knitting
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Intricate work here.
Wool spinning
Concentration!
Wool spinning
Intricate work
Weaving tools in use
There is someone inside that!
Spinning by hand
Wool waiting spinning
A fiddly job
Wool half spun
Felt hat making
The pattern is progressing
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Balls of newly spun wool
Concentration on the job
Wool awaiting spinning
Hat moulds
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning
Silk being drawn into yarn
Spinning
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