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