Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
All keeping warm in the cold.
A lot of wool to be spun
Knitting?
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Unwinding the silk strands
Wool working or rope making?
Soaking the silk cocoons
Rope making by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Hand spinning
A wintry scene
Felt slippers
Drawing the silk threads
spinning by hand
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Balls of newly spun wool
Drawing silk into skeins
Dressed for the weather.
Full length sheepskin coat
Teasing thread
Wool spinning
Wool half spun
Drawing silk threads
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Wool awaiting spinning
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Wool spinning
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