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