Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A sheepskin collar and coat
All keeping warm in the cold.
Wool spinning by hand
spinning by hand
Hat moulds
Weaving
Rope making the hard way
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Starting a thread
Making a felt hat
Silk cocoons
A lot of wool to be spun
Close up of the spinning process
Hat moulds
A historical loom?
Teasing thread
Concentration!
Drawing the silk threads
Balls of newly spun wool
Wool half spun
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
A happy weaver
Weaving in progress
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Hand spinning
Silk cocoons
Soaking the silk cocoons
The raw material
Wool spinning by hand
Weaving
Drawing silk into skeins
Intricate work
Many threads being drawn into one
Knitting?
Spinning wool by hand
Drawing silk threads
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Wool waiting spinning
A flock of sheep
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A silk moth.
Rope making
Spinning and winding wool
Spinning
wool spinning
Felt working
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Rope making by hand
A wintry scene
Full length sheepskin coat
Felt slippers
Wool spinning
Wool working or rope making?
Felt hat making
Weaving
Teasing a thread of some sort
Spinning by hand
There is someone inside that!
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A fiddly job
Wool spinning
Hand spinning
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Yarns ready for weaving
A wool carder
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Concentration on the job
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