Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
A fiddly job
Drawing silk into skeins
A flock of sheep
Finished felt hats
Spinning by hand
Weaving
There is someone inside that!
Starting a thread
Weaver at work
Concentration!
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Wool awaiting spinning
All keeping warm in the cold.
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Spinning wool by hand
Knitting?
Knitting
Hat moulds
Weaving
Concentration on the job
Shaping the hat
Inserting a coloured thread
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Silk cocoons
Close up of the spinning process
Drawing silk threads
There is a thread of some sort there.
Pressing the felt
Spinning by hand
Hand spinning
A wool winder
Weaving in progress
Soaking the silk cocoons
Wool spinning
Silk larva and the cocoon
Teasing a thread of some sort
Unravelling the threads
Spinning
The raw material
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Wool half spun
Wool working or rope making?
Wool waiting spinning
Felt working
Wool spinning
Felt slippers
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Dressed for the weather.
The pattern is progressing
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Silk cocoons
Felt hat making
Wool spinning by hand
Wool spinning the traditional way.
Many threads being drawn into one
Balls of newly spun wool
Rope making the hard way
Hat moulds
spinning by hand
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Weaving in progress
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Inserting a thread
Yarns ready for weaving
Drawing the silk threads
Spinning
Spinning
Rope making by hand
A happy weaver
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Hand spinning
A sheepskin collar and coat
Teasing thread
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
A wintry scene
Gathering something, but what?
Competing for the woolliest coat.
The sheep look neater!
Wool spinning
Making a felt hat
Intricate work
Spinning and winding wool
A silk moth.
The pile is going down
wool spinning
Felt slippers
A wool carder
A lot of wool to be spun
He looks warmer than the photographer.
A proper sheepskin coat!
Silk being drawn into yarn
Unwinding the silk strands
Full length sheepskin coat
A historical loom?
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
Hand spinning
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Keeping warm with the sheep
Wool spinning by hand
Yarns ready for weaving
Intricate work here.
Rope making
Views
/110
Copyright of the photographs is held by Steve R. Salter and the Tools and Trades History Society and the photographs here are watermarked accordingly. Higher resolution unwatermarked images are available on application to TATHS at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. but any use of them must include a reference to Steve R. Salter as copyright holder and to TATHS.
