Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning wool by hand
Starting a thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Finished felt hats
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Dressed for the weather.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Spinning
The pattern is progressing
Shaping the hat
A fiddly job
Silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
The raw material
Felt working
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaving
A wool winder
Hand spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Rope making
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A silk moth.
Wool spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Weaving
Intricate work
Inserting a coloured thread
Hand spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning
Spinning
wool spinning
A historical loom?
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hand spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Knitting?
There is a thread of some sort there.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Inserting a thread
Concentration on the job
Spinning
spinning by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
All keeping warm in the cold.
Drawing the silk threads
A sheepskin collar and coat
Gathering something, but what?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Yarns ready for weaving
The sheep look neater!
Wool spinning
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