«For in times to come, we will have to find a responsive and sensitive balance between the still-usuable skills and wisdom of the past and sustainable products and inventions of the 21st century.»

Lloyd Kahn, 1973, The Book of Shelter
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Smoking eel

Smoking eel

How to growing your own printing ink

How to growing your own printing ink

Preparation for the fine willow skeinwork

Preparation for the fine willow skeinwork

‘Braiding is watching with your fingers’, says Esmé Hofman one of the few professional basket weavers in Europe practicing the very fine type of basketry called willow skeinwork. The material for this work is obtained by cleaving a long willow rod in three or four with a special wooden cleave. The long strips of willow...
The goat is a goat

The goat is a goat

The yoga of knitting

The yoga of knitting

Recipe: elderflower juice

Recipe: elderflower juice

How to get goat milk from a mama goat?

How to get goat milk from a mama goat?

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