Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A wintry scene
Rope making by hand
Wool awaiting spinning
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning
The pattern is progressing
A wool winder
Full length sheepskin coat
Rope making by hand
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Pressing the felt
Spinning
Drawing silk threads
Teasing a thread of some sort
spinning by hand
Starting a thread
The sheep look neater!
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Intricate work
Intricate work here.
Spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Rope making
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning wool by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool working or rope making?
The pile is going down
Spinning by hand
Weaving
Silk being drawn into yarn
A silk moth.
Felt working
Spinning by hand
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