This book contains a detailed handbook on determining the sex of pure- and cross-bred chicks, with chapters on handing and care, common questions and problems, and more.
This vintage text contains an interesting and informative guide to the history and manufacture of grandfather clocks, complete with historical information, descriptions of many different varieties, and a plethora of authentic photographs.
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 fantastic book contains a collection of classic articles on the subject of bee keeping, focusing mainly on queens and how to rear, introduce, and breed them.
This antiquarian volume contains a beginner's guide to watches, being an accessible and simplified description of the mechanics of wrist and pocket watches together with information on the history of their development.
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 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.
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.
Originally published in 1908, this is one of the earliest books on bee keeping and the natural history of the honey bee, with information on its natural history, bee society, anatomy, bee keeping, and much more.
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to beekeeping, with information on starting a hive, hive management, swarming, harvesting honey, seasonal preparations, and much more.
This vintage book contains a complete guide to bee-keeping, with information on hive construction and management, the natural history of bees, harvesting, swarming, and all other related aspects.
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 book, written to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the grant of their Royal Charter, charts the full history of the Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers of the City of London.
'A celebration of the overlooked artistry in crafts practised across the world'THE TIMES'Clare Hunter is out to reclaim the joy of making for the masses.
The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers.
The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers.
Craft delicious wild cocktails from foraged and grown ingredientsThe art of foraged, or 'wild', cocktails is a growing phenomenon all over the world - from the pop-up bars of London to the farmers' markets and speakeasies of New York City.
The third of 6 eBook-only shorts from star of the Great British Sewing Bee and doyenne of the Women's Institute, May Martin, including three adorable projects, across a range of difficulties - Hand Puppets, Jersey T-shirt and a Smocked Dress - taken from May Martin's Sewing Bible.
An enchanting tale of travels among South East Asia's Sea Gypsies, scattered groups of semi-nomadic fisher people who occupy the spaces between the islands.
In this remarkable, landmark publication, countryman Sir Johnny Scott evokes all that is romantic about the British countryside, its people, customs and traditions.
