Rural crafts

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the leather industry in late-nineteenth century America, being a dissertation on the methods employed in and the economics of tanning.

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

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

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

This vintage book contains a detailed and practical guide to decorating leather.

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.

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

This vintage book contains a collection of recipes for making a variety of interesting beverages, with clear and practical directions for mixing all kinds of cocktails, sours, egg nog, sherry cobblers, coolers, absinthe, crustas, fizzes, flips, juleps, fixes, punches, lemonades, and more.

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

This vintage book contains a complete guide to taxidermy, with information on skinning, stuffing, mounting, and preserving a variety of mammals and birds.

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

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to Native American lore, history, and tradition.

Creative Ropecraft is a wonderful collection of practical nautical knots and decorative ropework.

Creative Ropecraft is a wonderful collection of practical nautical knots and decorative ropework.

The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet.

Birds are the life and soul of any garden, whatever its size or location, and one thing can be guaranteed: if food is on offer, birds will visit.

Birds are the life and soul of any garden, whatever its size or location, and one thing can be guaranteed: if food is on offer, birds will visit.

Our seas are host to an extraordinary variety of plant and animal life, but much of it remains mysterious and great imagery is surprisingly hard to find.

Our seas are host to an extraordinary variety of plant and animal life, but much of it remains mysterious and great imagery is surprisingly hard to find.

A brand new RSPB guide to help you become a confident and learned explorer of the seashore.

This practical field guide, published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, includes 170 species of coastal birds from Britain and the near Continent.

This wonderful collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an expanded and now full-colour collection of projects from Des's popular Des Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs.

This wonderful collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an expanded and now full-colour collection of projects from Des's popular Des Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs.

This practical pocket guide, published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, includes nearly 180 species that live in the area between land and sea called the intertidal, or littoral, zone.

This practical field guide, published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, includes nearly 180 species that live in the area between land and sea called the intertidal, or littoral, zone.

Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean reveals the fascinating wealth of sea life found in this diverse but little-documented region.

This practical field guide, published in association with the Wildlife Trusts, includes 170 species of coastal birds from Britain and the near Continent.

Sea Fishes of the Mediterranean reveals the fascinating wealth of sea life found in this diverse but little-documented region.

Shizuko Kuroha's Japanese Patchwork Quilting Patterns infuses a cherished American craft with an exquisite Japanese sense of color, detail, and design.

"e;"e;"e;If you have never embroidered before, no worries, for there are detailed instructions of what you need + all the techniques and stitches you need to know for the patterns in the book.

This detailed and well-illustrated work on leathercraft and its techniques was first published in the 1940s and provides an instructional and informative guide to leatherwork as a craft and an art, written in a candid and personal style.

This vintage instructional manual is perfect for the leatherwork novice and enthusiast alike.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to saddle- and harness-making, with information on tools and equipment, comments on different techniques, instructions for making, and much more.

This vintage handbook on leathercrafting and shoemaking remains a helpful and practical text for anyone interested in leatherworking and traditional crafts.

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

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

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

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

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

This vintage book contains a complete guide to making a gloves, with detailed directions for using leather, employing patterns, cutting, stitching, and everything else one might need to know.

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;.

Originally published in London, 1927.

Until recently the country craftsman was an essential member of every rural community.

This important book was first published in 1973.

From hive to home!

Whether winding greenery onto a wreath form with your own hands and florists wire, or transforming a store-bought wreath, the secrets are in the garden (and the produce section of the market): roses, hydrangeas, citrus, berry bushes, complementary greens and herbs, fruits, vegetables and flowers in season.