By: Una McGovern

Paperback

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Navigating by the stars / thatching / charcoal burning / maze laying / making candles / making besom brooms / making cider / blacksmithing / haymaking / using herbal remedies.

Lost 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.

A fascinating book which will inspire everyone, whether as a practical guide or just a brilliant read. There are things here which I have always wanted to try out - and now I can! [Miranda Krestovnikoff, presenter of BBC's Coast]A wonderfully informative catalogue of the kind of knowledge we are losing but would be wise to preserve. [Zac Goldsmith, environmentalist]This is a great book which everyone should read. Although some of these crafts may be associated with a bygone era, they are as relevant today as they have ever been and there is something for everyone to learn. Hours of amusement! [Jimmy Doherty, presenter of BBC's Jimmy Doherty's Farming Heroes]It's a treasure... a lovely book, full of fascinating information and useful advice. Splendid on hedge-laying I am now hooked on Hooper's hedge hypothesis and on threatening an unproductive fruit tree with an axe. However, I am worried that each time I pick it up it falls open at 'Milking a cow'. I have no cow: is the book trying to tell me something? [Adam Hart-Davis, writer and broadcaster]A blend of social history and practical instruction, this handsome book will have youcoopering, whittling and smocking in no time. McGovern makes the dream of never shopping again seem like a reality, and teaches a sobering lesson about the extent to which, until recently, the things we

Farming 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

ISBN: 9780550104724
ISBN-10: 0550104720
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 384
Published: September 2009
Publisher: Hodder Education
Dimensions (cm): 19.0 x 14.4  x 2.9
Weight (kg): 0.618