Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool waiting spinning
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning by hand
Spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Teasing thread
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Weaving in progress
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
The pile is going down
Drawing silk into skeins
Yarns ready for weaving
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Silk cocoons
Spinning by hand
Unravelling the threads
The sheep look neater!
Hand spinning
Spinning
A happy weaver
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Gathering something, but what?
Rope making by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
spinning by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Teasing a thread of some sort
A silk moth.
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
A lot of wool to be spun
Intricate work here.
The pattern is progressing
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
There is someone inside that!
Weaving
Weaving tools in use
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Making a felt hat
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Hand spinning
Knitting?
Spinning wool by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Wool awaiting spinning
Concentration!
Hat moulds
Dressed for the weather.
The raw material
A historical loom?
Spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
wool spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Felt hat making
Starting a thread
Rope making the hard way
Unwinding the silk strands
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool spinning by hand
Felt slippers
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Silk being drawn into yarn
Spinning and winding wool
Pressing the felt
Drawing the silk threads
Weaving
Weaving
Many threads being drawn into one
A wool winder
Concentration on the job
Intricate work
Wool spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Spinning
Rope making by hand
A flock of sheep
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