Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A silk moth.
Wool spinning by hand
Keeping warm with the sheep
Felt hat making
Wool waiting spinning
Hat moulds
Silk cocoons
Hat moulds
Spinning and winding wool
Silk cocoons
A lot of wool to be spun
Silk being drawn into yarn
Silk larva and the cocoon
The raw material
A historical loom?
Spinning by hand
Making a felt hat
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Intricate work here.
Spinning
Pressing the felt
Balls of newly spun wool
Finished felt hats
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
A wintry scene
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Wool spinning by hand
Felt slippers
Rope making the hard way
Yarns ready for weaving
Rope making
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Spinning
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Drawing silk into skeins
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaving
Hand spinning
A wool carder
The sheep look neater!
Gathering something, but what?
Felt working
Weaving in progress
A fiddly job
Concentration on the job
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Rope making by hand
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Spinning wool by hand
The pile is going down
Weaving
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
A proper sheepskin coat!
Wool awaiting spinning
Close up of the spinning process
spinning by hand
A flock of sheep
There is someone inside that!
Intricate work
A wool winder
Teasing a thread of some sort
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A sheepskin collar and coat
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning
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