Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
Unravelling the threads
Full length sheepskin coat
Hand spinning
The pattern is progressing
Yarns ready for weaving
Hand spinning
Concentration!
A wool winder
Soaking the silk cocoons
Gathering something, but what?
A proper sheepskin coat!
Knitting?
A lot of wool to be spun
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Silk cocoons
Weaving
Rope making by hand
Balls of newly spun wool
Close up of the spinning process
Drawing silk threads
Wool spinning
Spinning by hand
Starting a thread
Wool half spun
Silk cocoons
Rope making
All keeping warm in the cold.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Soaking the silk cocoons
A wintry scene
Spinning
spinning by hand
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A historical loom?
A wool carder
Weaving tools in use
Weaving
Rope making by hand
Spinning
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Spinning and winding wool
Hat moulds
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hand spinning
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