Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Teasing thread
Intricate work
Spinning by hand
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Spinning
Hand spinning
There is someone inside that!
Gathering something, but what?
Shaping the hat
Spinning
Silk cocoons
spinning by hand
A proper sheepskin coat!
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning and winding wool
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool working or rope making?
Wool waiting spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Felt working
Intricate work here.
Unwinding the silk strands
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Hand spinning
Unravelling the threads
Spinning wool by hand
Spinning
Rope making the hard way
Weaving in progress
Silk being drawn into yarn
A silk moth.
Wool spinning
A flock of sheep
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Drawing silk threads
Dressed for the weather.
A wool carder
The pile is going down
Spinning by hand
Felt hat making
Yarns ready for weaving
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving tools in use
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Full length sheepskin coat
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