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Earth Knack: Stone Age Skills for the 21st Century

Autor Bart Blankenship, Blankenship, Robin Blankenship
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2001
Here is a comprehensive guide to learning some valuable and age-old techniques to simplify your life and get back to basics. It's a book of stone-age skills perfectly suited to the modern megalopolis or the concrete jungle. It shows you how to make pottery from the clay of the earth, how to make baskets from gourds and plant weavings, how to make clothing from plants and animals, and how to brew pine needle tea for your full daily dose of vitamins B and C. With easy-to-obtain natural resources (the only resources your great-great-great grandparents had) you can make the strongest glue, the richest dyes and the most soulful music. The skills and ideas in this unique book will not only have you creating unique objects in an age-old manner but will also restore to you a sense of self-fulfilment and self-worth.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780879057336
ISBN-10: 0879057335
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 25 b&w illustrations, 300 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Gibbs Smith Publishers

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Earth Knack is a comprehensive how-to book for using Stone Age skills to fulfill your daily needs from materials readily at hand. Anyone who tries these ideas will find them environmentally appropriate and uniquely fulfilling.

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Here are just a few skills to enrich you experience and give you a feeling of self reliance.

-Twist and weave strong cord and rope from plant and animal fibers.

-Learn the basics of flintknapping.

-Boil a batch of natural hide glue, one of the strongest adhesives known.

-Extract natural dyes and pigments from earth and plants.

-Create a flute, drum or tambourine for hours of musical fun.

-Cut and stitch an elegant buckskin skirt or shirt.

-Mold a clay pot for cooking.

-Brew pine needle tea or mix a batch of acorn muffins