Hand spinning with a loom behind ready to use the yarn.
Hand spinning
A historical loom?
The face of a man who knows how to keep warm.
Rope making by hand
A silk moth.
spinning by hand
The pile is going down
Forget the cow. Look at the rope walk in the background.
Wool awaiting spinning
Making a felt hat
A sheepskin collar and coat
The raw material
Silk larva and the cocoon
Weaving
A fiddly job
Hand spinning
Not the neatest but definitely the warmest.
Inserting a coloured thread
A proper sheepskin coat!
A wool carder
Wool spinning by hand
Soaking the silk cocoons
Silk cocoons
Teasing a thread of some sort
Weaving or wool spinning, that is the question?
Keeping warm with the sheep
Yarns dyed ready for weaving
Shaping the hat
Pressing the felt
Balls of newly spun wool
Wool spinning
Yarns ready for weaving
Drawing silk threads
Not sure who has the warmer coat.
All keeping warm in the cold.
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.
