Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Drawing silk into skeins
There was a rope walk in the background here.
wool spinning
Felt slippers
Rope making by hand
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Wool working or rope making?
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool awaiting spinning
Hat moulds
A historical loom?
Spinning by hand
Starting a thread
Many threads being drawn into one
Yarns ready for weaving
It looks a mess whatever it is.
A wool winder
Knitting
A wool carder
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Silk cocoons
Rope making by hand
There is a thread of some sort there.
Spinning
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