Forgotten Household Crafts by John Seymour

Forgotten Household Crafts by John Seymour

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Helps you rediscover the world of traditional household crafts. This book describes tried and trusted methods that are honed over the centuries and helps you learn to make butter and cheese, embroider, keep bees, decorate your home, and more. It contains practical advice useful to produce what you need for yourself.

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Forgotten Household Crafts by John Seymour

A practical guide to the Good Old Days Rediscover the lost world of traditional household crafts with 'the grand master of self-sufficiency' (Kitchen Garden) John Seymour. Master tried and trusted methods that have been honed over the centuries and learn to make butter and cheese, embroider, keep bees, decorate your home, and more. As Seymour himself once said “we must fill our homes and our lives with beautiful things again and cast out the mass-produced rubbish. This book shows that such things are possible.” All the practical advice you need to produce what you need for yourself.
John Seymour was an active campaigner for the countryside and the environment and is the acknowledged founding father of the self-sufficiency movement. Students still come from around the world to learn first hand about his lifestyle and philosophies at the centre that he established in southern Ireland. He died in 2004.
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ISBN 13 9781405322225
ISBN 10 1405322225
Title Forgotten Household Crafts
Author John Seymour
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Year published 2007-08-02
Number of pages 256
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