Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Spinning wool by hand
Shaping the hat
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Teasing thread
The pattern is progressing
There is a thread of some sort there.
Many threads being drawn into one
Soaking the silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Intricate work here.
Spinning
Close up of the spinning process
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
The raw material
Weaving
Weaving
Hat moulds
Spinning
Teasing a thread of some sort
Felt working
A proper sheepskin coat!
Hand spinning
Inserting a thread
A sheepskin collar and coat
Any ideas what he is doing here?
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
Concentration on the job
There was a rope walk in the background here.
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Weaving in progress
A wool winder
Rope making
A family business. Not many tools in evidence.
Pressing the felt
Gathering something, but what?
Wool spinning
Wool working or rope making?
Wool half spun
Wool spinning
He looks warmer than the photographer.
Weaving
Weaving in progress
Felt slippers
Silk cocoons
Hand spinning
Unwinding the silk strands
Starting a thread
Very intricate wheels. What are they for?
Weaver at work
The pile is going down
Hat moulds
Silk being drawn into yarn
Concentration!
There is someone inside that!
Hand spinning
Spinning
Balls of newly spun wool
Weaving tools in use
A happy weaver
Spinning by hand
Spinning
Wool spinning the traditional way.
A silk moth.
Intricate work
Rope making the hard way
It looks a mess whatever it is.
Silk larva and the cocoon
Yarns ready for weaving
Full length sheepskin coat
A wool carder
Spinning by hand
Unravelling the threads
Competing for the woolliest coat.
Finished felt hats
Rope making by hand
Felt hat making
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Wool spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Soaking the silk cocoons
Keeping warm with the sheep
All keeping warm in the cold.
Making a felt hat
A wintry scene
Drawing the silk threads
spinning by hand
Inserting a coloured thread
Wool waiting spinning
Hand spinning
wool spinning
Drawing silk into skeins
Wool awaiting spinning
A fiddly job
A lot of wool to be spun
Raw wool waiting to be spun.
Felt slippers
Drawing silk threads
Rope making by hand
Wool spinning by hand
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.
