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navigating by the stars - thatching charcoal burning - maze laying - making candles making besom brooms - making cider blacksmithing - 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.
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Lost Crafts: Rediscovering Traditional Skills, Una McGovern
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2009
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
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- Título
- Lost Crafts: Rediscovering Traditional Skills
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Una McGovern
- Editorial
- Hodder Education
- Publicado en
- 2009
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0550104720
- ISBN13
- 9780550104724
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Arte / Cultura, Hobbies, Guías y Manuales, Arte, Artesanía
- Calificación
- 3,8 de 5
- Descripción
- navigating by the stars - thatching charcoal burning - maze laying - making candles making besom brooms - making cider blacksmithing - 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.