Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Silk cocoons
Spinning wool by hand
Silk cocoons
Wool spinning
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Balls of newly spun wool
Silk being drawn into yarn
Many threads being drawn into one
A happy weaver
Soaking the silk cocoons
Intricate work
Rope making
Full length sheepskin coat
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning by hand
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving
Knitting?
Shaping the hat
Weaver at work
The pile is going down
A wool carder
Wool spinning by hand
Concentration!
Hand spinning
Rope making the hard way
Rope making by hand
Concentration on the job
Inserting a coloured thread
A historical loom?
Close up of the spinning process
Making a felt hat
Felt slippers
A flock of sheep
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Weaving in progress
Gathering something, but what?
The raw material
A lot of wool to be spun
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving tools in use
Yarns ready for weaving
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Drawing the silk threads
There is a thread of some sort there.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hand spinning
Spinning and winding wool
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