Traditional trades, crafts and skills

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

"e;Shoe and Leather Encyclopedia by The Shoe & Leather Gazette"e; is a collection of vintage articles on the subject of leather shoe and boot manufacturing.

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

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 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 comprehensive treatise on the scientific and chemical processes involved in making leather.

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.

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.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise on the manufacture of leather, with details on deliming, depilation, the chemical qualities of skins and hides, puering, bating, drenching, and much more.

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

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

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to leather working.

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 collection of classic articles on the subject of the hardening and tempering in blacksmithing, taking the reader through the processes in a factory setting.

This vintage book contains a reference book of recipes and processes commonly used by watchmakers, jewellers, silversmiths, etc.

This vintage book contains a complete history of watchmaking in America from 1809 to 1888.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to making, adjusting, springing, timing and adjusting a variety of watches.

This vintage book contains a brief biography of Edward Howard.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to horology.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to contemporary methods and techniques employed in horology and clockmaking.

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the use of jewelled bearings in watchmaking, with descriptions of manufacture, gauging, and setting.

This vintage book contains a detailed history of the American clock business in the early to mid nineteenth century, with information on the development of manufacturing techniques, stylistic changes, important figures and companies, influences from abroad, and much more.

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 a detailed treatise on antique clocks, with information on identification, history, development, popularity, and more.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to watchmaking, with information on watch and clock cleaning and repairing, tempering in all its grades, making tools, compounding metals, soldering, plating, and more.

'Fifty years into my life journey I realise that, while I love remote wild places and the peoples I meet there, it is in forests that I find the greatest joy.

'Fifty years into my life journey I realise that, while I love remote wild places and the peoples I meet there, it is in forests that I find the greatest joy.

Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits.

Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits.

This antiquarian book comprises a comprehensive and practical handbook on modern watches, with information on the history and development of watches, on cleaning them, repairing them, and much more.

This antiquarian volume comprises a detailed guide to British clocks and notable clock makers.

"e;Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World"e; is a comprehensive reference book of the most notable makers of clocks and watches in the world at the time when this book was first published.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to Swedish sewing and needlework, with a special focus on transferring the skill to interior design.

First published in 1943, "e;The Farming Ladder"e; aims to explain how the reader may start and maintain a successful and profitable farm in the easiest way possible, without requiring a great deal of special knowledge or skills.

"e;The Nut Growers Handbook"e; is a fantastic, comprehensive guide to all things nuts, with a focus on growing them.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to general clock maintenance.

This classic handbook for students of metal work contains a complete introduction to the subject, with chapters on everything from recognising equipment to producing finished work.

The Wheelwright's Shop by George Sturt offers an intimate and vivid portrayal of traditional craftsmanship at the turn of the 20th century.

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.

"e;The Mary Brooks Picken Method Of Modern Dressmaking"e; is a complete guide to tailoring, originally written with the amateur in mind.

This volume offers the reader a wealth of information on fishing for bream, dealing with night fishing, required equipment, drifting, common problems, and much more.

This is a vintage handbook on farriery (horse shoeing), with detailed information on a range of subjects including creating horse shoes, the anatomy of the horses foot, problems and ailments, treatments, techniques of shoeing, preventative measures, and much more.

This vintage text contains a detailed guide to watch repair, with descriptions of the watch movement, parts of the watch, and common stoppages of wrist watches.