Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Dressed for the weather.
Many threads being drawn into one
Drawing silk threads
Wool awaiting spinning
Concentration!
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaver at work
Knitting
Unwinding the silk strands
Wool spinning by hand
A sheepskin collar and coat
Drawing the silk threads
The pattern is progressing
Spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning by hand
There is someone inside that!
Wool half spun
wool spinning
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Weaving
Felt hat making
Drawing silk into skeins
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Rope making the hard way
Soaking the silk cocoons
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A lot of wool to be spun
Silk cocoons
Spinning by hand
Rope making by hand
Keeping warm with the sheep
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
All keeping warm in the cold.
A happy weaver
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A silk moth.
Finished felt hats
Teasing thread
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Knitting?
Hand spinning
Shaping the hat
Intricate work
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A fiddly job
Silk being drawn into yarn
Wool spinning
Weaving
Inserting a coloured thread
Unravelling the threads
Spinning and winding wool
Silk cocoons
Felt slippers
A wool winder
Wool working or rope making?
A historical loom?
Wool waiting spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hat moulds
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Hat moulds
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning
Pressing the felt
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Making a felt hat
Starting a thread
Inserting a thread
Full length sheepskin coat
Spinning
Spinning
Weaving tools in use
Spinning
The pile is going down
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