Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
The sheep look neater!
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Balls of newly spun wool
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Spinning by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool waiting spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
Silk cocoons
The raw material
Hat moulds
Drawing silk into skeins
Weaving in progress
Spinning
Drawing silk threads
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
There is someone inside that!
Keeping warm with the sheep
Teasing a thread of some sort
Wool working or rope making?
Any ideas what he is doing here?
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaving
Weaving tools in use
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Inserting a thread
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
spinning by hand
wool spinning
Weaver at work
Inserting a coloured thread
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Spinning wool by hand
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaving in progress
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