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