Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving
Wool working or rope making?
Wool awaiting spinning
A flock of sheep
Drawing the silk threads
Starting a thread
Gathering something, but what?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Hand spinning
Weaver at work
Hand spinning
A silk moth.
Balls of newly spun wool
Spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Unwinding the silk strands
Wool waiting spinning
A historical loom?
Knitting
Rope making
A wool winder
Intricate work here.
Shaping the hat
Silk cocoons
A wintry scene
Yarns ready for weaving
A lot of wool to be spun
Spinning by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
Close up of the spinning process
Full length sheepskin coat
Silk being drawn into yarn
Keeping warm with the sheep
Many threads being drawn into one
Spinning
The raw material
Concentration!
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving
A sheepskin collar and coat
Teasing a thread of some sort
A proper sheepskin coat!
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