Historical Skills and crafts
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A Weaver's Garden: Growing Plants for Natural Dyes and Fibers
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Rita Buchanan
4.34 avg rating — 116 ratings 
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Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes (Wooden Books)
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Jonathan Horning
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 62 ratings 7. 
Wheels and Looms: Making Equipment for Spinning and Weaving
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David Bryant
4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 8. 
American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer: That's why you're here!
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Jack Tar
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings 9. 
Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum
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Stuart M. Frank
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 10. 
Reader's Digest Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills 4.39 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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How to Make A Great Soy Jar Candle: Revealing My Favorite Candle Suppliers
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Amber Richards
3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings 12. 
The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Yarn Works: How to Spin, Dye, and Knit Your Own Yarn
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Wendy J. Johnson
4.22 avg rating — 63 ratings 
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Preserve Your Family Pictures: How To Save Photo Heirlooms for Future Generations
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Amber Richards
3.81 avg rating — 84 ratings 
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No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
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Anne Macdonald
4.04 avg rating — 688 ratings 26. 
The American Girl's Handy Book: Turn-of-the-Century Classic of Crafts and Activities (Dover Children's Activity Books)
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Lina Beard
4.01 avg rating — 219 ratings 26. 
Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skill - From the Society of Primitive Technology
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David Wescott
4.13 avg rating — 52 ratings 26. 
Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery
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John A. Burrison
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
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Esther Rutter
4.15 avg rating — 664 ratings 
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Cajun Mardi Gras Masks (Folk Art and Artists Series)
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Carl Lindahl
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 39. 
Tools and Trades of Americas Past: The Mercer Collection
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Marilyn Arbor
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 40. 
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Native American Crafts and Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival 4.07 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry (And Government, #55)
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Sarah H. Hill
4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings 46. 
The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use, 2nd Edition
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Reginald Laubin
4.26 avg rating — 86 ratings 46. 
Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States
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Henry Glassie
3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings 
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Great & Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina
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Cinda K. Baldwin
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 50. 
The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking: One Hundred Recipes for the Fireplace or Campfire
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William Rubel
4.36 avg rating — 47 ratings 50. 
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Hearth and Home: Women and the Art of Open Hearth Cooking
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Fiona Lucas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 52. 
Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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I Made This Jar... The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Handcrafted in the Blue Ridge: Discovering the Crafts, Artisans, and Studios of Western North Carolina
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Andrea Gross
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 57. 
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Row upon Row: Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry
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McKissick Museum
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 59. 
Spinning in the Old Way: How (and Why) To Make Your Own Yarn With A High-Whorl Handspindle 4.16 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
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Peter Korn
3.73 avg rating — 1,696 ratings 
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The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency Used by the Mormon Pioneers
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Caleb Warnock
3.97 avg rating — 426 ratings 62. 
The Artful Wooden Spoon: How to Make Exquisite Keepsakes for the Kitchen
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Joshua Vogel
4.17 avg rating — 223 ratings 
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Woven Identities: Basketry Art of Western North America: Basketry Art of Western North America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions (Shire Library USA, 640)
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Carol Hayes
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Free to Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds
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Dale Dougherty
3.98 avg rating — 119 ratings 
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The Keepers: Mountain Folk Holding on to Old Skills and Talents
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Robert Isbell
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt and Other Pieces
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Kyra E. Hicks
4.17 avg rating — 59 ratings 81. 
Saws Planes and Scorps: Exceptional Woodworking Tools and Their Makers
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David Heim
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings 82. 
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Sun Circles and Human Hands : The Southeastern Indians Art and Industries 4.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Selling Tradition : Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk
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Jane S. Becker
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)
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Alanna Cant
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 93. 
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
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Clare Hunter
4.10 avg rating — 2,131 ratings 
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