Rural crafts

This exciting guide for young explorers combines scientific facts, fascinating titbits, brilliant full-colour photography and sensitive illustrations to bring a wonderful variety of ocean creatures vibrantly to life.

This vintage book contains a guide to the various methods employed in preparing, tanning, dressing, scenting, and renovating wool and fur pelts, as well as fine leather.

Follow instructions on how to make leather items.

This vintage collection of articles offers insights into the fundamental practice of leathercraft, with a special focus on glovemaking.

Originally published in London, 1927.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to collecting, preserving, packing, and keeping specimens of birds, eggs, nests, feathers, and skeletons.

An illustrated guide to the profitable art of shell cameo cutting.

This is a vintage handbook on practical cross-stitch, with diagrams and scale drawings taken from seventeenth-century samples and other sources.

This is a vintage handbook on practical canvas embroidery, with diagrams and scale drawings taken from seventeenth-century samples and other sources.

The making of bags and purses with leather is one of the oldest and most universal of its uses.

This is a vintage handbook on double-running or back-stitch, with diagrams and scale drawings taken from seventeenth-century samples and other sources.

This vintage book contains a concise guide to tanning leather, with information on blacking, stuffing, finishing, and more.

Uppers, Leather and Findings is a vintage catalogue of shoe and boot parts and accessories published by New York shoe manufacturer Michael Arthur.

"e;Cane Work"e; is a classic guide to weaving baskets, offering the reader simple instructions on how to make a variety of baskets, ranging from the simple and practical to ornate and decorative.

This vintage book contains a detailed handbook on the analysis of potable spirits.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to leather working.

This antique text contains one of a series of pamphlets known as the 'Merit Badge Library', written with the intention of providing American boy scouts with the information required to attain certain merit badges.

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This is a comprehensive scientific investigation into the effects of glucose and salts on sole leather, originally published by the United States Department of Commerce in 1919.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to tanning leather, with information on tools and equipment, required materials, different techniques, benefits, common problems, and many other related aspects.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to decorating leather, with information on staining, painting, modelling, tools and equipment, and many other related aspects.

This vintage handbook offers insights into the fundamental practice of leather wallet crafting.

This vintage book contains some concise but useful facts about leather, boots, and shoes.

This classic guidebook is perfect for the leatherwork novice and enthusiast alike.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This vintage handbook offers insights into the fundamental practice of leathercraft, with a special focus on the leather belt.

This book contains a vintage article on the subject of leather working, being a collection of entertaining and commonly unknown facts related to leather, skinning, and tanning.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to curing, tanning and colouring the skins of sheep, goat, dog, rabbit, otter, beaver, mink, wolf, and more.

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This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on harvesting broom-corn and making brooms on a small or large scale, written and compiled by the editors of "e;The American Agriculturalist"e;.

This antique book contains a detailed step by step guide to making toy animals out of leather.

This vintage book contains a detailed investigation into the composition of sole leathers in the early twentieth century.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to birds' nests and eggs, with information on preparing, stuffing, and mounting birds and animals.

Facts Worth Knowing About Leather, Boots, and Shoes is a concise guide to shoe manufacturing and the shoe industry, published by Chicago shoe manufacturers "e;Walker Tannery"e;.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise on the scientific and chemical processes involved in making leather.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to leather working, with detailed information on hides, skins, and the manufacturing processes involved in leather production.

This book contains a classic handbook on the art of decorating leather, with information on tools and equipment, materials, techniques, common problems, and many other related aspects.

A practical guide for kids aged 7-11, by popular Really Wild Show presenter Nick Baker, full of exciting things to see and do pretty much everywhere.

Go beyond just following the steps and learn the methods to traditional basket weaving, from measuring and adding spokes and forming God's Eye knots to weaving twill and twining patterns.

There's simply no limit to the sins people will commit for a tasty meal.

This is a seafaring story with multiple aspects.