Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Hand spinning
Gathering something, but what?
There is someone inside that!
Rope making by hand
Rope making
Spinning
Rope making by hand
Wool awaiting spinning
Knitting?
Drawing the silk threads
The sheep look neater!
Intricate work here.
Rope making the hard way
A sheepskin collar and coat
Drawing silk into skeins
Many threads being drawn into one
Spinning by hand
Felt working
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Soaking the silk cocoons
wool spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Felt hat making
The pile is going down
Concentration on the job
Unwinding the silk strands
Hand spinning
Teasing thread
Wool spinning
Silk cocoons
Spinning and winding wool
Keeping warm with the sheep
Weaving in progress
Wool spinning
Finished felt hats
The pattern is progressing
Weaving tools in use
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaving
Balls of newly spun wool
Intricate work
Wool spinning by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
A flock of sheep
Weaver at work
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Starting a thread
A wintry scene
There is a thread of some sort there.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Felt slippers
Inserting a thread
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Wool spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Inserting a coloured thread
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Teasing a thread of some sort
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A wool carder
A lot of wool to be spun
Full length sheepskin coat
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A historical loom?
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