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Handcrafts
Some craftsmanship seen at Winter Count 2014. Moving a little closer to a hand-made life, one skill at a time. Hand made pottery made by artisans who collect the raw clays, slips, and paints make for...
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Working a Hide
Fleshing a hide on a beam. A familiar site to only a few of us these days but a common one for most of our history. Source: Turkestanskii al’bom, chast’ promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p. 26.
View ArticleLeatherworking Images from the Middle Ages
Some things never really change… While looking through my image archive I came upon some leather working illustrations dated to the early 15th century. All but one of the images below is from the...
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Here are some images from hide tanning workshops from Diderot’s Encyclopedia, 1769 that I found interesting as a leather worker and occasional hide tanner. If you have done any hide tanning you’ll...
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