Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Yarns ready for weaving
Shaping the hat
A lot of wool to be spun
Wool awaiting spinning
Hand spinning
Spinning
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
A proper sheepskin coat!
Drawing silk into skeins
Gathering something, but what?
All keeping warm in the cold.
A historical loom?
Wool spinning
Weaver at work
Weaving
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Weaving in progress
It looks a mess whatever it is.
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Wool spinning by hand
wool spinning
A wintry scene
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