People knitting

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two women sitting at a table in front of a mirror, one holding a string

Interior with two Women Wooling - Carl Thomsen - (Danish: 1847-1912)

10 Awesome Historical Photos of People Knitting

10 Awesome Historical Photos of People Knitting | Mental Floss

a woman sitting on the ground next to a pile of white yarn

End Poverty - Tibet Archives

Traditional Weaver Prepares Rough Wool, Tibet Shear the sheep. Prepare the wool. Twist into thread. Weave into beautiful rugs to warm the floors of Buddhist monasteries. Repeat for thousands of years.

HUMLA

TSALA (CHALA) VILLAGE, HUMLA: HUMLA: NEPAL HIMALAYA:

an old man sitting on a tree stump holding something in one hand and looking at the camera

Old Man 2 Spinning, Konso, Ethiopia

Old Man 2 Spinning, Konso, Ethiopia | by off2africa

two people are standing in the doorway of an old stone building and one is holding something

End Poverty - Tibet Archives

Young Couple on the Tibetan Plateau A young man spins wool like his ancestors did while his wife looks on from the doorway. Tsurphu Valley, Tibet.

a man sitting on top of a rock next to a tree

Old Man 1 Spinning, Konso, Ethiopia

Old Man 1 Spinning, Konso, Ethiopia | Old man spinning cotton, Konso, southern Ethiopia

Dorisella Frances Harris Freeze : Collections Online

Dorisella Frances Harris Freeze (Mrs. John) knitting. 1944

an old black and white photo of two people working on a spinning wheel

Spinning - Encyclopedia of Alabama

Spinning Photograph by Mary Morgan Keipp (1875-1961)

an old black and white photo of two men standing next to a spinning wheel in front of a wooden building

An Illustrated Guide)

"Photograph of former slave Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon, ca after 1865". Check out the spinning wheel, you had to spin yarn before you could weave it into cloth to sew a garment. That's why most people had only 1 or 2 outfits. Everything was so labor intensive. Biddy Craft