Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Inserting a thread
Weaving tools in use
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Felt slippers
A sheepskin collar and coat
Intricate work
Drawing the silk threads
Silk being drawn into yarn
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Balls of newly spun wool
Hand spinning
Spinning
Starting a thread
Wool spinning
Wool awaiting spinning
Wool spinning by hand
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning and winding wool
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Concentration!
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