Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Weaving
Wool waiting spinning
Felt working
Hand spinning
Rope making by hand
Spinning by hand
wool spinning
Soaking the silk cocoons
A wool carder
Rope making the hard way
Felt hat making
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
Pressing the felt
Concentration!
Drawing the silk threads
spinning by hand
The pile is going down
Intricate work
Full length sheepskin coat
A happy weaver
The pattern is progressing
Inserting a coloured thread
Spinning wool by hand
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Inserting a thread
A lot of wool to be spun
Weaving in progress
Wool half spun
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning by hand
A silk moth.
A wool winder
Spinning
Weaving in progress
Wool spinning
Shaping the hat
Making a felt hat
Weaving tools in use
Hand spinning
Finished felt hats
Starting a thread
Teasing thread
A fiddly job
Silk cocoons
Wool awaiting spinning
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Rope making
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Wool spinning
Knitting
The sheep look neater!
Silk being drawn into yarn
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
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