Traditional trades, crafts and skills

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 volume contains a practical guide to repairing watches as a hobby, designed to furnish the novice enthusiast with an elementary understanding of watches that will enable them to clean them and make minor repairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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 informative book comprises a comprehensive manual of the varying methods used in leatherworking.

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

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

Detailed in this text are a variety of leatherworking techniques and guides that will instruct the reader on how to make plethora of serviceable and decorative items.

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.

Knitting enthusiasts and historians will find a wealth of cute patterns for babies' clothes in this illustrated guide.

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

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

Embroidery has always been a popular art in England, and records show that from Anglo-Saxon times the English were skilled in the craft.

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

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

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

This book contains a collection of articles on bee-keeping, with information on the interaction between bees and plants, general hive management, natural history of the honey bee, and much more besides.

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

This antique book contains a concise yet comprehensive guide to the various ailments common to bees, with information on their causes, treatment, and prevention.

This book contains a collection of articles on the monthly and seasonal work to be done by the beekeeper, with information on the general management of bees, the fundamentals of bee-keeping, the natural history of the bee.

This volume contains a collection of articles on the profits and marketing of beekeeping products, with information on beekeeping, natural history, marketing, and more.

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

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

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

This old work contains a detailed history of the Guild of London Clockmakers, with information on its conception, its early development, its evolution, popularity, and more.

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.

This antiquarian work contains a comprehensive guide to the many variations in the lever escapement of clocks, with information on history, manufacture, popularity, and evolution.

This antiquarian volume contains an interesting treatise on antique clock dials, hands, and corner pieces from long case and lantern clocks, with information on history, production, fashion, evolution, and much more.

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

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.

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

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

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

There are certain types of information that are very difficult to come by these days, unless you are a specialist of some kind.

Mary Brooks Picken founded the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

This antique text contains a manual of practical instruction in hand forging of wrought iron, machine steel, and tool steel, as well as drop forging and heat treatment of steel - including annealing, hardening, and tempering.

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This early collection is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all horologists.

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

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

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

This fascinating early work will appeal to doll collectors, dress makers and sewing enthusiasts alike.

Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace from a series of knots and loops.

Contained within this book is an exposition of the "e;Italian System"e; of bee-keeping, being Don Giotto Ulivi's frame hive design and honey extractor.