Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning
Rope making the hard way
There is someone inside that!
Knitting?
Rope making
Intricate work
Spinning
Weaving in progress
The pile is going down
A flock of sheep
Full length sheepskin coat
The raw material
A wintry scene
A historical loom?
The pattern is progressing
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Inserting a thread
Close up of the spinning process
Felt slippers
Concentration on the job
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool working or rope making?
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Teasing thread
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning by hand
A sheepskin collar and coat
Inserting a coloured thread
He looks warmer than the photographer.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Wool awaiting spinning
A wool winder
Yarns ready for weaving
Weaving
Spinning by hand
Hat moulds
Gathering something, but what?
Pressing the felt
Spinning and winding wool
Making a felt hat
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Hat moulds
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Drawing silk threads
Weaving
wool spinning
A happy weaver
Rope making by hand
Unravelling the threads
Silk cocoons
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Weaving
Silk cocoons
Concentration!
Knitting
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Wool waiting spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Unwinding the silk strands
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
Felt slippers
Yarns ready for weaving
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