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