Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
The pattern is progressing
Teasing thread
Shaping the hat
A silk moth.
Inserting a thread
Rope making
Felt hat making
A historical loom?
Weaving in progress
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving in progress
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A flock of sheep
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Teasing a thread of some sort
Yarns ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Weaving
Starting a thread
A happy weaver
Weaver at work
Drawing silk into skeins
Intricate work here.
There is someone inside that!
A wool carder
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Hand spinning
Spinning
Spinning
Hat moulds
Rope making by hand
Silk being drawn into yarn
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hat moulds
All keeping warm in the cold.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A fiddly job
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A proper sheepskin coat!
He looks warmer than the photographer.
The raw material
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning by hand
Knitting?
Pressing the felt
Keeping warm with the sheep
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A wool winder
The sheep look neater!
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Silk cocoons
Spinning by hand
spinning by hand
Concentration!
Drawing the silk threads
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Wool half spun
Wool waiting spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Silk larva and the cocoon
Wool spinning
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