Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Spinning by hand
Wool spinning
Weaver at work
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
Weaving in progress
Starting a thread
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
There is someone inside that!
There is a thread of some sort there.
Close up of the spinning process
A wool carder
A wintry scene
Rope making by hand
Wool half spun
Teasing a thread of some sort
Balls of newly spun wool
Unwinding the silk strands
Soaking the silk cocoons
Spinning
Wool working or rope making?
Spinning and winding wool
Knitting?
Hand spinning
A historical loom?
Shaping the hat
Unravelling the threads
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Hand spinning
Silk cocoons
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Concentration!
Silk larva and the cocoon
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Inserting a thread
Rope making by hand
Knitting
Felt slippers
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Hand spinning
The pattern is progressing
Drawing silk threads
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
He looks warmer than the photographer.
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