Handicrafts, decorative arts and crafts

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

This vintage book contains a comprehensible guide to horse shoeing, focusing on shoeing race horses, polo horses, horses used for hunting, and draft animals.

"e;Glove Puppetry"e; is a classic guide to glove puppets, including chapters on its history, how to make puppets, how to put on a performance, and much more.

Any milliner will know how important selecting material is when it comes to making hats.

Beret-like headwear has been worn across Europe since pre-Roman times.

This vintage book contains a collection of classic articles about making hats out of straw.

Hat making-or Millinery-has seen a revival in recent years, with people realising just how cost-effective, enjoyable, and rewarding the endeavour can be.

This vintage book explores the colourful history of quilt making in America, looking its origins, development and evolution, influences, popularity, contemporary techniques, and much more.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to wood finishing, with information on methods, materials, and tools for natural, stained, varnished, waxed, oiled, enamelled, and painted finishes.

"e;Weaving Patterns of Yesterday and Today"e; explores the history of weaving and weaving patterns, first looking at its origins before walking the reader trough the various methods used to produce different patterns.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive manual of embroidery, with information on all aspects of the subject from designing to finishing.

"e;The Art Of Bobbin Lace"e; is a detailed guide to producing lace, a decorative, open-work fabric formed by looping, interlacing, braiding or twisting threads of various fibres.

This vintage book contains a novice-friendly guide to making clothes for felt dolls.

This book is a comprehensive guide to building yachts for beginners.

This vintage book contains a course of woodworking exercises, together with a short treatise on wood, designed for manual training classes in schools and colleges.

This book deals with the lace industry, exploring its history in England, Europe, and in the United States.

This is a classic guide to embroidery designed especially for amateurs.

"e;The Whitetail Deer Head Book For The Taxidermist"e; is a complete guide to the taxidermy of deer.

Teach yourself the skill of re-heeling boots and shoes, a helpful skill that can save you time and money and quite fun.

A fantastic comprehensive guide to building boats for the amateurs and professionals alike.

This vintage book contains an detailed, step-by-step guide to constructing model ships in bottles.

This vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on roping, being a practical and informative guide to the art of tying rope.

John Mason who was the teacher of bookcrafts and bookbinding at the Leicester College of Arts and Crafts and at Vacation Schools for Teachers brings you 'A Practical Course in Bookcrafts and Bookbinding'.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive manual of hand-made bobbin lace work, with information on techniques, details on measurements, simple instructions, and a wealth of handy tips.

In this book, we look at the work and style of one particular tribe The Sioux.

This vintage volume contains a comprehensive guide to repairing and refinishing furniture, with information on tools and equipment, materials, enamelling, workshop practice, and many other related aspects.

Originally published in 1918.

This vintage book contains a detailed handbook on knots and splices, being a compact and systematic list of all the most useful and important workings connected with cordage.

This vintage text contains an accessible and novice-friendly guide to cleaning and repairing clocks.

"e;Blacksmithing"e; is vintage guide to metalworking, with a special focus on farm-related work.

This vintage book contains a catalogue of examples of Jacobean embroidery, including simple instructions for reproduction, detailed descriptions, practical tips, and more.

Furniture Decoration Made Easy - A practical work manual for decorating furniture by stencilling, gold-leaf application and freehand painting.

This vintage volume contains a complete guide to building kitchen cabinets, with simple instructions, working drawings, and lists of materials for the eleven most popular styles, in sizes to suit any kitchen.

This vintage book contains a catalogue of French provincial furniture and accessories, including lamps, clocks, faience, porcelain, garden fountains, sculptures, and other ornaments.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to building, rigging, and sailing model sailing yachts and boats.

This book contains a classic guide to making lampshades out of satin and silk.

"e;The Practical Gold-Worker"e; is a comprehensive handbook designed for goldsmiths and jewellers, containing information on alloying, melting, reducing, colouring, collecting, refining, and much more.

"e;Art Of Coppersmithing"e; is a detailed and interesting treatise on the subject, exploring its history and development and giving precise, illustrated instructions as to how various results are achieved.

"e;How to Sew an Apron"e; is a classic guide to making a variety of traditional women's aprons, with chapters on hat making.

This book contains a classic article on the patterns used in quilt making in southern Wales and Northern England.

"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.

A detailed guide to dressmaking, being a handbook of pattern drafting and design.

Follow instructions on how to make leather items.

We start of with a history of the origins of Punch from Italy and then its progress through both England and America.

This is a classic guide to crochet, a process of creating fabric from yarn, thread, or other material strands using a crochet hook.

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.

This vintage text contains a comprehensive and practical guide to watch repair, with information on simple and complex repairs, cleaning, general maintenance, and much more besides.

Silkworms.

This antiquarian volume contains a concise yet detailed introduction to antique household clocks, with information on the inner workings and machinations of clocks, their external and decorative characteristics, and more.

First published in 1939 this classic, historical book is in its complete and unabridged original form, extensively illustrated and full of instruction that is as useful and practical today as it was when originally published.