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