Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Making a felt hat
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Unravelling the threads
Hat moulds
Unwinding the silk strands
Yarns ready for weaving
Dressed for the weather.
A wool winder
Yarns ready for weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving
Felt slippers
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning by hand
Hat moulds
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Weaver at work
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
There is someone inside that!
The sheep look neater!
Spinning by hand
A wintry scene
spinning by hand
Pressing the felt
Balls of newly spun wool
Teasing thread
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Drawing silk threads
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Close up of the spinning process
Spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
A silk moth.
Knitting
Intricate work
Inserting a coloured thread
Drawing the silk threads
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
Rope making the hard way
Weaving
Wool waiting spinning
Weaving
There is a thread of some sort there.
Drawing silk into skeins
A fiddly job
Silk being drawn into yarn
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
A flock of sheep
wool spinning
A wool carder
Wool spinning
Hand spinning
Spinning by hand
Concentration on the job
Concentration!
Silk cocoons
Knitting?
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Felt slippers
Teasing a thread of some sort
Rope making by hand
A happy weaver
Full length sheepskin coat
Felt working
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Starting a thread
Spinning and winding wool
Silk larva and the cocoon
Spinning wool by hand
Spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Rope making
Hand spinning
A historical loom?
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