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