Attic find

8.9.

"It's a long way from sheep to sweater," says Lisa Jestl, who has made spinning her hobby and also passes on her skills and knowledge in taster courses at the open-air museum in Maria Saal.(Bild: Christina Natascha Kogler)

The secret is in the rhythm. Yes, even in dancing, but now it's all about spinning. Lisa Jestl knows the long path from sheep to sweater - and has shown it to us.

Women and men look curiously at Lisa Jestl, who has set up everything for spinning in the open-air museum in Maria Saal. "I was looking for a spinning wheel and found one in the attic at home in Virgen in East Tyrol," says Jestl, as she presses the pedal on the spinning wheel with one foot to set the wheel in motion and uses her nimble fingers to cut the wool fleece into pieces to spin a uniformly thick thread.