Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool waiting spinning
Hand spinning
Silk cocoons
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaver at work
Starting a thread
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Many threads being drawn into one
Inserting a thread
Spinning wool by hand
Spinning
wool spinning
Weaving tools in use
Full length sheepskin coat
Weaving in progress
Drawing the silk threads
Wool awaiting spinning
A flock of sheep
A proper sheepskin coat!
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Intricate work
Hand spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool spinning by hand
The pattern is progressing
A historical loom?
Wool spinning by hand
A wool winder
A sheepskin collar and coat
Weaving
Keeping warm with the sheep
Weaving
Yarns ready for weaving
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Weaving in progress
Dressed for the weather.
Silk cocoons
Silk being drawn into yarn
Spinning by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning by hand
Shaping the hat
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Gathering something, but what?
A wintry scene
Finished felt hats
Felt slippers
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Concentration!
Silk larva and the cocoon
A wool carder
The raw material
Concentration on the job
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Drawing silk threads
Hat moulds
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A lot of wool to be spun
Close up of the spinning process
Wool spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Balls of newly spun wool
Rope making
Wool working or rope making?
Rope making by hand
Rope making the hard way
A silk moth.
Spinning and winding wool
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