Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Balls of newly spun wool
Hand spinning
The pattern is progressing
A proper sheepskin coat!
Making a felt hat
Shaping the hat
Drawing silk into skeins
Silk being drawn into yarn
Intricate work
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
A historical loom?
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
All keeping warm in the cold.
Weaving in progress
Hand spinning
A wool winder
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Hat moulds
The pile is going down
Felt working
Spinning by hand
A fiddly job
Full length sheepskin coat
Weaving tools in use
Intricate work here.
Wool spinning
Hat moulds
Soaking the silk cocoons
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Drawing silk threads
Yarns ready for weaving
Unravelling the threads
A wool carder
Spinning
Rope making
There is a thread of some sort there.
Weaving
Concentration on the job
Silk larva and the cocoon
Silk cocoons
Weaving
Silk cocoons
The raw material
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Knitting?
Rope making by hand
Drawing the silk threads
A silk moth.
Rope making the hard way
Close up of the spinning process
There is someone inside that!
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A lot of wool to be spun
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Teasing thread
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Wool waiting spinning
Hand spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Spinning and winding wool
Spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Pressing the felt
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Felt slippers
Wool spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Rope making by hand
Inserting a thread
Keeping warm with the sheep
Felt slippers
Spinning
Felt hat making
Concentration!
Wool working or rope making?
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