Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Wool working or rope making?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool spinning
A wool winder
Competing for the woolliest coat.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Inserting a coloured thread
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Drawing silk into skeins
Wool spinning by hand
Gathering something, but what?
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