Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool spinning by hand
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Making a felt hat
Pressing the felt
Hand spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
Soaking the silk cocoons
Teasing thread
Felt slippers
A flock of sheep
A wool carder
The raw material
Balls of newly spun wool
Rope making by hand
Drawing silk into skeins
Knitting?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Silk cocoons
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Hat moulds
Spinning
Unravelling the threads
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning and winding wool
Drawing the silk threads
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning by hand
There is someone inside that!
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Knitting
Many threads being drawn into one
Teasing a thread of some sort
Yarns ready for weaving
Concentration!
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A lot of wool to be spun
Felt working
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Starting a thread
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A silk moth.
A fiddly job
Wool spinning
Wool working or rope making?
The pattern is progressing
Concentration on the job
Silk being drawn into yarn
A wool winder
Close up of the spinning process
Weaving tools in use
Silk cocoons
Intricate work here.
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning
A wintry scene
Unwinding the silk strands
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
spinning by hand
Finished felt hats
Drawing silk threads
Gathering something, but what?
A proper sheepskin coat!
Spinning wool by hand
Wool spinning by hand
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Shaping the hat
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
Felt hat making
A historical loom?
All keeping warm in the cold.
Hand spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Weaving
Intricate work
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