Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Felt slippers
Hand spinning
Weaving
Inserting a coloured thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning
Knitting?
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A silk moth.
Rope making the hard way
A flock of sheep
Starting a thread
Weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning by hand
A wool carder
Drawing silk into skeins
Concentration on the job
Silk larva and the cocoon
Drawing the silk threads
Yarns ready for weaving
Felt slippers
Spinning wool by hand
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Rope making by hand
A fiddly job
Silk being drawn into yarn
Silk cocoons
Spinning and winding wool
Rope making
Concentration!
Spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool waiting spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Balls of newly spun wool
There is a thread of some sort there.
spinning by hand
Hat moulds
Spinning
Wool spinning
Teasing a thread of some sort
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Close up of the spinning process
There is someone inside that!
A lot of wool to be spun
Inserting a thread
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Gathering something, but what?
Weaving in progress
Wool spinning by hand
Intricate work
Weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Unwinding the silk strands
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
wool spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Intricate work here.
Many threads being drawn into one
Unravelling the threads
Knitting
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Spinning
Drawing silk threads
Felt working
Weaving in progress
Wool spinning
Making a felt hat
Silk cocoons
Felt hat making
The pile is going down
Hand spinning
Weaver at work
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