Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning
Keeping warm with the sheep
Full length sheepskin coat
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Hand spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Wool spinning by hand
A silk moth.
Shaping the hat
Wool awaiting spinning
Hat moulds
Spinning
Teasing thread
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Gathering something, but what?
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Pressing the felt
Felt working
Rope making by hand
The pile is going down
Rope making by hand
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A wool carder
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving in progress
Knitting
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Spinning by hand
A fiddly job
Wool spinning by hand
Drawing silk threads
Hand spinning
Spinning
The pattern is progressing
Wool half spun
Wool spinning
Wool working or rope making?
Weaver at work
Weaving tools in use
wool spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Hat moulds
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
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