Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
wool spinning
Weaving in progress
Pressing the felt
Wool awaiting spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Unwinding the silk strands
Starting a thread
A fiddly job
Unravelling the threads
Soaking the silk cocoons
The raw material
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Hand spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Keeping warm with the sheep
Felt slippers
A sheepskin collar and coat
Wool spinning
Hand spinning
Shaping the hat
Many threads being drawn into one
A proper sheepskin coat!
spinning by hand
The sheep look neater!
There is someone inside that!
Weaving tools in use
Knitting
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Spinning wool by hand
A wool carder
Silk being drawn into yarn
Concentration on the job
Spinning by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Rope making
Weaver at work
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Rope making by hand
Felt working
Close up of the spinning process
A happy weaver
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