Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning and winding wool
Concentration on the job
Close up of the spinning process
Pressing the felt
wool spinning
Intricate work
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A happy weaver
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Silk being drawn into yarn
Dressed for the weather.
Wool spinning by hand
Spinning
Hand spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Hand spinning
Weaving
A flock of sheep
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
A wintry scene
Yarns ready for weaving
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Knitting?
Full length sheepskin coat
Spinning
Teasing thread
A historical loom?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving in progress
A wool winder
Balls of newly spun wool
Hat moulds
Yarns ready for weaving
Inserting a coloured thread
Weaving tools in use
Drawing the silk threads
Unwinding the silk strands
Weaving
Weaving in progress
Spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Teasing a thread of some sort
The sheep look neater!
Unravelling the threads
Rope making the hard way
Hand spinning
Wool spinning
Hand spinning
There is a thread of some sort there.
Wool half spun
The pile is going down
Felt slippers
A sheepskin collar and coat
Drawing silk into skeins
The raw material
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Silk cocoons
Wool awaiting spinning
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