Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hat moulds
Dressed for the weather.
Spinning
The pattern is progressing
Knitting?
Teasing thread
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Hand spinning
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Spinning
Starting a thread
Soaking the silk cocoons
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Many threads being drawn into one
Hand spinning
Teasing a thread of some sort
Hat moulds
There was a rope walk in the background here.
A wool carder
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