Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Concentration on the job
Weaver at work
Silk cocoons
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A proper sheepskin coat!
spinning by hand
Keeping warm with the sheep
Inserting a coloured thread
The sheep look neater!
Rope making the hard way
Hat moulds
Felt slippers
Spinning
Many threads being drawn into one
Rope making by hand
Silk being drawn into yarn
Competing for the woolliest coat.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Starting a thread
Unwinding the silk strands
The pattern is progressing
Soaking the silk cocoons
Felt working
Weaving in progress
wool spinning
Teasing thread
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
The pile is going down
A wool winder
Dressed for the weather.
Hand spinning
Spinning wool by hand
Wool spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Drawing silk into skeins
The raw material
Close up of the spinning process
A flock of sheep
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Balls of newly spun wool
Yarns ready for weaving
A fiddly job
A lot of wool to be spun
Gathering something, but what?
There is someone inside that!
Shaping the hat
A wool carder
A historical loom?
Wool spinning by hand
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Unravelling the threads
Pressing the felt
Rope making
Silk larva and the cocoon
Knitting?
Wool spinning
Weaving
Concentration!
Spinning
Weaving in progress
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool waiting spinning
Intricate work here.
Spinning and winding wool
Wool awaiting spinning
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