Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Rope making by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
Silk cocoons
Concentration!
Soaking the silk cocoons
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Intricate work
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Felt hat making
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Knitting?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Knitting
Spinning
Wool spinning
Full length sheepskin coat
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning by hand
A happy weaver
Weaving tools in use
A flock of sheep
Spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Felt slippers
All keeping warm in the cold.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Silk being drawn into yarn
It looks a mess whatever it is.
spinning by hand
Silk larva and the cocoon
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Starting a thread
Silk cocoons
Intricate work here.
Wool awaiting spinning
Inserting a coloured thread
Many threads being drawn into one
Spinning wool by hand
A fiddly job
There is someone inside that!
Rope making by hand
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Hat moulds
Wool working or rope making?
A historical loom?
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning and winding wool
Concentration on the job
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Hat moulds
Drawing silk into skeins
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Hand spinning
Making a felt hat
Rope making the hard way
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