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