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navigating by the stars - thatchingcharcoal burning - maze laying - making candlesmaking besom brooms - making ciderblacksmithing - haymaking - using herbal remediesLost Crafts is an attractive and engaging introduction to a range of traditional and sustainable crafts, activities and pastimes. Around 100 traditional pursuits are described and illustrated, from whittling to spinning, beekeeping to dry-stone walling, lace-making to trout guddling.Whether seeking instruction or inspiration, interested in social history or simply curling up in an armchair and daydreaming, the reader will find Lost Crafts to be a fascinating treasury of pastimes from a bygone age. And, as awareness grows of our environmental footprints, these sustainable pursuits are increasingly relevant to the modern world.
Contents
: Dry-stone Walling: Stone Fencing: Making Wattle Hurdles: Coppicing: Hedge Laying: Tree Felling: Milking a Cow: Shearing a Sheep: Beekeeping: Harvesting: Haymaking: Milling: Hunting and Gathering: Tracking Animals: Making a Bow and Arrows: Flint Knapping: Making a Fire Without Matches: Catching Eels: Trout Guddling or Trout Tickling: Fishing with Creels: Making Fishing Nets: Making Fishing-rods: Making Coracles: Building Wooden Boats: Skinning a Rabbit: Plucking a Fowl: Foraging for Wild Food: Food and Drink: Brewing Beer: Making Cider: Using Elderflowers: Making Lemonade: Making Butter: Making Cheese: Making Jam and Marmalade: Candying Peel: Making Traditional Sweets: Pickling: Smoking: Preparing Hare, Pigeon and Rabbit the Mrs Beeton Way: Home and Garden: Making Soap: Making Oil Lamps: Making Rushlights: Making Candles: Chimney Sweeping: Making Besom Brooms: Patchwork and Quilting: Making Rag-Rugs: Spinning: Weaving: Making Clogs: Kitchen Gardening: Using Herbal Remedies: Creating Topiary: Maze Laying: Practical Crafts: Stonemasonry: Building with Wattle and Daub: Cob Walling: Pargeting: Thatching: Tiling: Making Weather Vanes and Weathercocks: Making Rope: Tanning: Working with Leather: Saddlery: Blacksmithing and Farriery: Wheelwrighting: Coopering: Green Woodworking and Woodturning: Making Chairs: Making Walking Sticks and Shepherds' Crooks: Making Sussex Trugs: Making Baskets: Charcoal Burning: Making Clay and Briar Pipes: Making Bobbins: Making Paper: Making Quill Pens: Tying Knots: Navigating by the Stars: Decorative Crafts: Making Corn Dollies and Harvest Knots: Making Bobbin Lace: Tatting: Smocking: Sewing Samplers: Making Pomanders and Pot Pourri: Making Tussie-mussies: Carving Welsh Love Spoons: Whittling: Working Scrimshaw: Bone, Antler and Horn Working: Making Whistles: Canal Boat Painting: Making Stained Glass: Glass-blowing
