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