Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
The pile is going down
Spinning wool by hand
The raw material
Spinning
A historical loom?
Wool working or rope making?
Concentration on the job
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning and winding wool
Spinning by hand
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Rope making
Unwinding the silk strands
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving in progress
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A fiddly job
Inserting a thread
Concentration!
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Teasing thread
Starting a thread
A flock of sheep
Spinning
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Weaver at work
Drawing silk threads
Soaking the silk cocoons
Silk being drawn into yarn
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool spinning by hand
Felt slippers
Spinning by hand
Felt slippers
Silk cocoons
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning
Knitting?
The sheep look neater!
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool waiting spinning
Felt hat making
Weaving
There is someone inside that!
Weaving tools in use
Wool half spun
Hand spinning
Rope making the hard way
wool spinning
Pressing the felt
Intricate work here.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Close up of the spinning process
A wool carder
A silk moth.
Weaving
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
All keeping warm in the cold.
Inserting a coloured thread
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Drawing silk into skeins
The pattern is progressing
Making a felt hat
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Felt working
Hand spinning
A happy weaver
Wool spinning
Intricate work
spinning by hand
Drawing the silk threads
Yarns ready for weaving
Shaping the hat
A sheepskin collar and coat
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Unravelling the threads
Gathering something, but what?
Full length sheepskin coat
There is a thread of some sort there.
Dressed for the weather.
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