Books, Home & Garden, Crafts & Hobbies, Leathercrafts

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Matt Richards
Deerskins Into Buckskins: How To Tan With Natural Materials - A Field Guide for Hunters and Gatherers
by Treasure Chest Books (Paperback)

All kinds of people enjoy making and wearing their own buckskin and so can you, with this easy to use guide. Over 130 photos and illustrations bring you step by step from raw skin to velvety soft buckskin and then show you how to create beautiful garments and useful goods. Design to be easily understood by the beginner yet rich with detail for the experienced, this book teaches tanning as a natural process. No chemicals are needed. All the tolls and materials are waiting around your home and land. While the tools are simple, having a great method is the key. This book has that method.

Valerie Michael
The Leatherworking Handbook: A Practical Illustrated Sourcebook of Techniques and Projects
by Cassell Illustrated (Paperback)

Valerie Michael—a founding member of the Association of Design Leatherworkers—has created the definitive guide to this popular and age-old craft. Oriented to the beginner, it thoroughly presents all the materials, tools, and key techniques in easy-to-follow photographs: finishing edges, paring and hand-stitching, making pockets, attaching studs and straps, and decorating surfaces. The well-chosen projects take into account developing skills, and range from belt and wallets to quilted items and bags. An invaluable reference work. “...Instructions are concise enough to offer craft enthusiasts of differing skill levels a range of projects to undertake.”—Booklist.  “Excellent and easy-to-understand introduction to classic leatherworking.”—Library Journal.

Ron Edwards
How to Make Whips (Bushcraft)
by Cornell Maritime Press (Hardcover)

James E. Churchill
The Complete Book of Tanning Skins and Furs
by Stackpole Books (Hardcover)

Maria Teresa Llado i Riba, Eva Pascual i Miro
The Art and Craft of Leather: Leatherworking tools and techniques explained in detail
by Barrons Educational Series (Hardcover)

Creating handsome leather products is an enjoyable and rewarding hobby, but it's a craft that requires training and specialized tools. This attractive volume presents beginners with the information and instruction they need to get started. Following a brief illustrated history of leathercraft, the authors describe how animal hides are processed into various types and grades of leather. The heart of this book begins with an introduction to leatherworking tools--mallets, awls, bevellers, groovers, special needles, coloring and dying agents, and others. Next, the authors demonstrate techniques and the use of tools for embossing, cutting, sewing, and shaping. They conclude with detailed, photo-illustrated instructions for eight different projects, which include construction of a beautiful leather basket, an elegant serving tray, a unique clock face, a stylish picture frame, a handsome set of scrapbook covers, and several more beautiful items. Hundreds of instructive color photos and ...

Tyler Beard
Art of The Boot
by Gibbs Smith, Publisher (Hardcover)

Since the publication of THE COWBOY BOOT in 1992, the art of the boot has risen unbelievably. The art is what this book is all about. Some of what is new in boots has never been seen before. We are in the platinum age of boot making. Long live the cowboy boot and its makers.

David Morgan
Whips and Whipmaking
by Cornell Maritime Press (Paperback)

Joel Monture
The Complete Guide to Traditional Native American Beadwork: A Definitive Study of Authentic Tools, Materials, Techniques, and Styles
by Wiley (Paperback)

"I can think of no recent book about traditional crafts which has delighted me more than Joel Monture's Complete Guide to Traditional Native American Beadwork. All too often, books of this nature are either as boring as a repair manual, or obscure and inaccurate. Monture's triumph is that his book is not only the best and most complete book about virtually every aspect of Native American beadwork tools, materials, styles and methods, it is also clear, interesting reading. "Written from the point of view of a Native master craftsman who is also a gifted teacher, and accompanied by striking full-color photos, it can serve as either a beginning point or a lifelong reference tool. I am confident that Monture's book will bring him wide praise, not only from beadworkers, but also from any person who delights in knowing more about the meaning and the history of an indigenous artform which is finally attracting the sort of critical attention and informed appreciation it deserves." ...

Andrew Conway
The New Bullwhip Book
by LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED (Paperback)

Did you ever look at the person with the bullwhip on the movie screen and think, "Hmmm, I wonder if I could do that?" Or maybe you are one of the people in the circus audience looking at the man or woman cracking the whip, not at the lion. If either of these scenarios describes you, then you are the kind of person for whom The New Bullwhip Book was written. The book introduces you to whip basics, parts of the whip, the different types available, as well as the three basic cracks, and step-by-step instructions on how to master those cracks.

Robert L. Woolery
Braiding Rawhide Horse Tack
by Cornell Maritime Press (Paperback)

Here is an instruction manual for the novice worker in rawhide. Unlike many other works on the subject, this book assumes no previous knowledge or experience. The reader is shown in drawings and photographs every step of the procedure, from starting with a fresh cowhide, through cutting strings and braiding them, to finished reatas, bosals, hobbles, or reins. The book also is useful to the collector of braided rawhide by demonstrating what to look for when buying an article. "For those who collect, use, or aspire to learn how to make your own cowboy horse gear, don't miss Woolery's book." --Western Horseman

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