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