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