Early Trades & Traditional Skills

From coopering to wheelwrighting and sawmilling, these books document historical trades and crafts that are a treasured part of our past. Learn how to make a coopered wooden bucket or delve into manufacturing and the trades just prior to the industrial revolution in Europe in the Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia. If the Victorian era piques your interest, don't miss Tales from the Blue Ox a collection of stories, tools, techniques and recipes from that time period.

• The Art of Mechanical Drawing

• The Art of Splitting Stone

• Chains and Chainmaking

• The Cooper and His Trade

• A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry in Two Volumes

• Early Logging Tools

• The Fascinating World of Early Tools and Trades

• Fifty Years a Planemaker and User

• Glory Days of Logging

• How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts

• How to Make a Coopered Wooden Bucket

• Leather Braiding

• Making a Copper Weathervane

• Making & Mastering Wood Planes

• Splicing Wire & Fiber Rope

• Steel- Toolmaking Strategies and Techniques before 1870

• Tales from the Blue Ox

•This Was Logging

• This Was Sawmilling

• The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots and Ropework

• What Knot?

• Wheelmaking

• Wheelwrighting—A Modern Introduction

• Whips and Whipmaking