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