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