Traditional trades, crafts and skills

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

First published in 1897, this volume is a complete guide to designing and cutting boot and shoe patterns, published with the novice in mind.

This antique text comprises a comprehensive and practical manual for aspiring students of leatherworking, complete with many illustrations and original designs by the author.

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.

Este libro versa sobre las técnicas fundamentales de trabajo del cuero, concretamente del curtido al vegetal, expuestas de manera didáctica y adecuada para las personas interesadas en este arte desde una vertiente práctica.

This antiquarian book contains a detailed account of the history of marine and pocket chronometer, with information on notable designers and manufactures, popularity, evolution, and much more.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to the manufacture of leather, originally written for the general student of leather work.

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

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 vintage book contains a complete and illustrated guide to bee-keeping designed for beginners and students.

This early manual is a fascinating read for any needlework enthusiast or historian.

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

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

This antiquarian volume contains a short account of some of the curiosities of the mechanical details of watches, with supplementary information on their history, development, popularity, and much more besides.

Quilting can refer either to the process of creating a quilt or to the sewing of two or more layers of material together to make a thicker padded material.

First published in 1859, "e;Bee-Keeping for Beginners"e; is a comprehensive handbook on bee-keeping with a focus on keeping bees for profit.

This vintage book contains a complete handbook on tanning, with information on treating hides, skins and pelts of every variety.

This vintage book is a complete guide to net and netting, with historical information, directions of making and using a variety of nets, helpful tips, and much more.

This is a vintage textbook on shoemaking originally designed for industrial, trade, and commercial schools in the early twentieth century.

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

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

This vintage book contains a complete guide to watch repair and maintenance, with information on the materials and tools used and directions for repairing, cleaning, altering, and adjusting all kinds of English and foreign watches, repeaters, chronographs, and marine chronometers.

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.

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

This antiquarian volume contains a treatise on the design and workings of usual and unusual clocks, described in a non-technical manner, suitable for either novice or expert.

Specially written for amateurs, beginners, cottagers and others who are desirous of keeping two or three hives of bees so as to yield the best results.

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 antique book is intended for the use of those who wish to keep bees, but who lack the requisite information.

This antiquarian book contains a comprehensive guide to fixing watches, with information on correcting balances, hairsprings and pivots.

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

"e;Ancient Russian Ecclesiastical Embroideries"e; is a fascinating treatise looking at the history and development of embroidery in Russia, with a special focus on that which is related to the church.

The number of beekeepers has been doubled or trebled in many localities according to the statistics of Beekeepers' Associations and doubtless the total production of home-produced honey has been stepped up considerably.

This is a vintage guide to leather working by Australian writer Paul N.

This is a study of reports from 360 American bee-keepers concerning different types of bees, how and where the highest yields are achieved, the development of techniques, best honey-plants, and much more.

"e;How to Keep Bees"e; is a detailed and accessible guide to bee-keeping and apiary management, with information on starting out, constructing an apiary, acquiring bees, and much more.

Originally published in the 1930s.

This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to clock repair, with information on barrels, fuses, mainsprings, balance springs, pivots, depths, train wheels, and common stoppages of watches.

This volume contains a collection of articles on beekeeping, including information on selection, rearing, eggs, and many other aspects of bee breeding.

In this remarkable, landmark publication, countryman Sir Johnny Scott evokes all that is romantic about the British countryside, its people, customs and traditions.

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

Con los nuevos materiales para joyería junto con la reutilización de objetos de uso cotidiano es posible crear piezas de joyería y de ornamentación corporal de elevado valor artístico.

"e;The Anatomy of the Honey Bee"e; is a vintage treatise first published in 1910.

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

There is only one state in the US which lives up to the epithet 'the best BBQ in the world', and that is Texas.

WEAVING WITH SMALL APPLIANCES.

This early works is a fascinating and comprehensive look at blacksmithing with much of the information still useful and practical today.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to clocks and watches, with historical information, descriptions of their inner workings, details of notable horologists, and much more.

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

"e;The Old English Faring Books"e; explores the history of English farming, exploring notable authors and the developments in agriculture that they were arguably responsible for.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to horse shoeing, originally intended for novices and apprentices.