Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving tools in use
Wool spinning
Unravelling the threads
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Weaving in progress
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning by hand
The raw material
Hand spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Intricate work
Wool working or rope making?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Rope making the hard way
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Pressing the felt
Soaking the silk cocoons
Knitting?
The pile is going down
Hand spinning
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving
Concentration on the job
There is someone inside that!
Knitting
Felt slippers
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Making a felt hat
Any ideas what he is doing here?
A lot of wool to be spun
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Teasing a thread of some sort
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Full length sheepskin coat
A proper sheepskin coat!
Silk larva and the cocoon
Hand spinning
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Rope making
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Felt slippers
Inserting a thread
A sheepskin collar and coat
Intricate work here.
A wool carder
Drawing silk threads
Finished felt hats
Yarns ready for weaving
Balls of newly spun wool
Spinning
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning by hand
Silk being drawn into yarn
All keeping warm in the cold.
Spinning wool by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving in progress
Drawing the silk threads
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Weaver at work
The sheep look neater!
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
wool spinning
Weaving
Wool half spun
Hat moulds
Dressed for the weather.
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
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