Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning
Weaving
Spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Concentration!
A historical loom?
A happy weaver
Spinning by hand
Silk cocoons
Rope making the hard way
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving
Wool spinning by hand
Hand spinning
Rope making
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Felt working
Drawing silk into skeins
Keeping warm with the sheep
Silk larva and the cocoon
Rope making by hand
Knitting?
Weaving in progress
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Drawing the silk threads
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
A lot of wool to be spun
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Wool spinning
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Inserting a coloured thread
Yarns ready for weaving
Spinning
Spinning by hand
Wool awaiting spinning
Felt hat making
Shaping the hat
Felt slippers
Hat moulds
Hand spinning
Felt slippers
Gathering something, but what?
A flock of sheep
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Close up of the spinning process
A wintry scene
Spinning
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