Making 1000 Nails - Colonial Blacksmithing: My brother is a blacksmith at a colonial model farm and estate, where everything is done as it was in George Washington's time. They plow the fields with horses, they use an icehouse to keep things cold, and they make everything they need on site. I…
Marc Newson has designed the cabin (and, we suspect, had a hand in the exterior) of the Astrium space tourism jet, which was launched at the Paris airshow earlier this summer. The jet is designed to carry four passengers into space on flights lasting just a few minutes, taking off like a conventional aircraft from
Photos by Jan Riser.
The Fire Steel, Blanket Pin, and Awl is a multi use product offered by Dave Canterbury of "Dual Survival" fame and Owner of the Pathfinder School, ...
The fur trade in the New World it is said started back in the 16th century. If you arrived in the New World without a trade, short of labour...
Handmade hooped beaver. Made from river willow and leather lacing. Made just like the trappers did long ago to dry their hides before bribing to market. Makes a beautiful wall piece for the rustic home or cabin.
Quilled Beaver Tail Pouch
Knowing the old ways of the blanket-pack is important for bushcrafters and historians alike. Here is more about the lightweight knapsack alternative that Emigrants, Soldiers, and Frontier Travelers of America's early history often preferred. Dave Rodgers is Chief Editor of the Frontier American Illustrated News. He is a tribal member and westerner descended directly from Squire and Edward Boone (father & brother of Daniel Boone). With an old-west family lineage of farmers, ranchers, lawmen and
Things with turtles on them or made out of turtle shells. | See more about Deerskin, Pendants and Turtles.
This decorative flint striker, engraved in a bilaterally symmetrical design of the Baroque style, was hand crafted by Shane using origina...
REXBURG — Forget the RV.
Simple trade arrowheads - based on a string of 25 found up in Maine. I cut/filed/ground these out of a wooden whiskey barrel band. The remains of the last quench tub.
hand-sewn leather clothing, including highly symbolic Native American spirit shirts, heavily embellished Native American war shirts, and more simply designed work shirts. The images in our gallery give you a good idea of the quality you can expect.
Bow, bowcase, quiver, and arrows, Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne). А. Horse hide/skin (colt), sinew, glass bead/beads, wood, iron point, iron point, paint. 133 x 81 x 6.5 cm. Arizona; 1870-1880. Collection of Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941, an illustrator and naturalist who was prominent in the history of the Boy Scouts). NMAI
Contemporary Makers: Hunting Pouch by J Hein with a Powder Horn by Ranny Sprenger for Bill Ruggie
Photos supplied by Darrel Lang from Leather from the Past .
Flintlock guns were extremely important weapons in the American Revolution; they also formed the foundation of all modern guns. Learn about the gun that started it all.
