Thick... 410 Page Profusely Illustrated Book.... bringing together a Wonderful Collection of "Crafts", Lore and such.... for Homesteaders, farmers... and anyone seeking a more an Independant... "Self-Relient" Way of Life... and more affairs of Plain Living.. through interviews and Working Photographs of old-time country folk who share their lives, wisdoms and crafts... with chapters including.. "From Raising Sheep to Weaving Cloth"... Sheep Sheering.... Carding and Spinning... Making a Spinning Wheel.... Making a Corn Shuck Bobbin, Making Skeins & making a Reeler.. Dyeing with Wild Plants, a Spool Rack, Shuttles, etc... The Procedures of Setting up a Loom and Weaving on it, Making a Warp, Threading the Loom, Sleying, Beaming, and Weaving..... plus Wagon & Wagon Wheel Making ... "Making a Foot Powered Lathe"... "Making an Ox Yoke"... "Making a Tub Wheel", "Corn Shuckin's, House Raisin's... Quiltin's"...... "Beekeeping" and honey, How to wash clothes in an Iron Pot, plus... Edible - "Sping Wild Plant Foods"... Making Sassafras & Sweet Birch Tea... Tonics, finding and using Wild Garlic, Nettles, Spring Greens instead of Vitamins, Natural Birch Beer, wild Rhubarb and Mustards, Chickweed, Peppergrass, Water Cres, Wild Horseradish, Milkweed, Chickory, Wild Lettuce, Dandelion, Recipes for Mixed Greens, "old time Burial Customs", Midwifing... Ghost Stories... .... and even more... filled with Wonderful Conversations with Old timers and their old ways, thick 410 Page softcover book in good condition with clean and intact pages and a Good Binding with some cover and edge wear/tear with Lots of Neat illustrations and working Photographs and fascinating text anchor press double day anchor press edition this is a foxfire book edited with an introduction by eliot wigginton with portions first appearing in their mag. copyright by the southern highland literary fund brooks elliot wiggington book there is an appendix in the back of the book which includes chimneys, joining with oak splints, baskets and hampers, a corded bed, and more, plus some neat old time recipes and this book may open up flat in places if pushed down flat while reading so this softcover book is dated 1973, and measures about 9" by 6" and price buzzed off front cover and a little cover edge wear and some rubbing on back cover PAGES LOOK NICE and CLEAN - THANKS FOR LOOKING AT THIS REALLY NEAT BOOK !
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