Title: Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins; a Book of Practical Instructions Telling How to Tan, Dress, Color and Manufacture or Make Into Articles of Ornament, Wear and Use Publisher: Columbus, O. : A.R. Harding Publication date: 1916 Subjects: Fur Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Farnham, Albert B.

Crafts & Hobbies

Fur Fish Game

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Home Tanning and Leather Making Guide

2011 Reprint of 1916 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  This is a classic and profusely illustrated  guide for those who wish to prepare and mount animals, birds, fish, reptiles, etc., for home, den, or office decoration.  Includes a history of the art, as well as a description of materials requited, formulas, panels, shields, mounts, skinning, tanning, cleaning and poisoning skins.  Also includes chapters on mounting small animals and large ones, as well as mounting heads, fish, reptiles, frogs, toads, skulls, etc.  Over one-hundred illustrations describe the techniques discussed in the text.

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit

A R Harding Fur Fish Game

A guide for those who wish to prepare and mount animals, birds, fish, reptiles, etc., for home, den, or office decoration

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Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit is a classic taxidermy guide by Albert B. Farnham. Thoroughness, patience, and some love for nature, are qualities highly desirable in taxidermy art. Work prepared by one possessing these qualities need not be ashamed and practice will bring skill and perfection of technique. As a handicraft in which the workman has not been displaced or made secondary by a machine taxidermy is noticeable also, and for many reasons is worthy of its corner in the home work-shop.

A Comprehensive Guide for Tanning, Leatherwork, and Buckskin PreservationThis deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of Albert B. Farnham's Home Tanning and Leather Making Guide is full of old-time tips and methods for preserving and working your own leathers, buckskin, and furs. Originally published in 1922, this handy little guide touches on every aspect of the fur and leather making process, with a focus on homemade and handcrafted preservation techniques used by Native Americans, trappers, and fur traders in the old days.Farnham describes the many conventional chemical processes from the 1920s for preserving and de-hairing hides and leathers, as well as the more traditional processes for brain-tanning, scraping, fleshing, and stretching hides in the historic old-time ways. This handy book contains the centuries of ancestral knowledge on fur and hide preservation, teaching the reader how to make the most flexible, workable, and comfortable tanned leathers for any project, from moccasins to full shirts, jackets, or robes. This book includes timeless knowledge on multiple tanning topics, including: selecting hides and skins; skinning, curing, and storing hides; materials and tools for leather making; fur preservation or fur removal; soaking and liming hides; tanning and stretching hides; deer hides and buckskin preparation; making robe skins; salting and curing hides for later work; preparing hides for sale; and various processes involved with preserving hides.This book makes a perfect gift for handcrafters, leatherworkers, hunters, trappers, homesteaders, outdoors enthusiasts, and those who are into rendezvous and mountain man meetups. A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics: Volume 12This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of The Home Tanning And Leather Making Guide is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come. About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors ClassicsSometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren't forgotten, they've just been shelved. It's time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any outdoorsperson's library and that can be passed to future generations.

Home Tanning And Leather Making Guide (Legacy Edition): The Classic Manual For Working With And Preserving Your Own Buckskin, Hides, Skins, and Furs (Library of American Outdoors Classics)

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A Comprehensive Guide for Tanning, Leatherwork, and Buckskin Preservation
This deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of Albert B. Farnham’s Home Tanning and Leather Making Guide is full of old-time tips and methods for preserving and working your own leathers, buckskin, and furs. Originally published in 1922, this handy little guide touches on every aspect of the fur and leather making process, with a focus on homemade and handcrafted preservation techniques used by Native Americans, trappers, and fur traders in the old days.
Farnham describes the many conventional chemical processes from the 1920s for preserving and de-hairing hides and leathers, as well as the more traditional processes for brain-tanning, scraping, fleshing, and stretching hides in the historic old-time ways. This handy book contains the centuries of ancestral knowledge on fur and hide preservation, teaching the reader how to make the most flexible, workable, and comfortable tanned leathers for any project, from moccasins to full shirts, jackets, or robes. 
This book includes timeless knowledge on multiple tanning topics, including: selecting hides and skins; skinning, curing, and storing hides; materials and tools for leather making; fur preservation or fur removal; soaking and liming hides; tanning and stretching hides; deer hides and buckskin preparation; making robe skins; salting and curing hides for later work; preparing hides for sale; and various processes involved with preserving hides.
This book makes a perfect gift for handcrafters, leatherworkers, hunters, trappers, homesteaders, outdoors enthusiasts, and those who are into rendezvous and mountain man meetups. 
A part of the Library of American Outdoors Classics: Volume 12
This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of The Home Tanning And Leather Making Guide is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.
About the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics
Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery – the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren’t forgotten, they’ve just been shelved. It’s time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency!
As a part of the Doublebit Press Library of American Outdoors Classics, this unabridged Legacy Edition volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any outdoorsperson’s library and that can be passed to future generations.

Home Tanning And Leather Making Guide (Legacy Edition): The Classic Manual For Working With And Preserving Your Own Buckskin, Hides, Skins, and Furs (The Library of American Outdoors Classics)

Home Taxidermy For Pleasure And Profit (Legacy Edition): A Classic Manual On Traditional Animal Stuffing and Display Techniques And Preservation ... Doublebit Library of Tanning and Taxidermy)

A Classic Vintage Handbook on Taxidermist’s Methods and Equipment 
This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Albert Farnham’s classic manual Home Taxidermy For Pleasure And Profit is full of classic tips and methods for making your very own home displays and mounts of animals. Originally published in 1916, this vintage book is a great addition to the library of any budding or veteran taxidermist, outdoorsman, cabin enthusiast, hunter, or traditional handcrafter! 
Learn some of the timeless tips of taxidermy in this volume, including how to prepare and mount animals of all kinds: mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles. Also included are discussions on the history of the art, the tools of a taxidermist, vintage ways for preparing and preserving specimens, how to properly make scientific skins, how to prepare dry and wet skins for mounting, how to mount small, medium, and large size specimens, how to make animal fur rugs and robes, casting and modeling, displaying hunting trophies, the anatomy of animals, and suggested prices for your work (for the year 1916!). 
Decorate your cabin space or hunting lodge, or even enjoy your taxidermy specimens in your home (if your family lets you!). 
This vintage book includes timeless knowledge about taxidermy methods, which have largely been lost to time, but never forgotten by the old masters. This book makes a great gift for new and veteran taxidermists, hunters, outsoorspeople, bushcrafters, survivalists, campers, and cabin enthusiasts. Although this book represents thought from a former time, it also reveals much about the rich history of taxidermy and natural history study of animals via specimens, and many of the tips, tricks, and discussions are still relevant for study today! 
A part of the Doublebit Library of Tanning and Taxidermy: Volume 3 
This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Home Taxidermy For Pleasure And Profit is professionally restored and presented from the original source, including inspiration from the book’s original cover, with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge. 
About the Doublebit Press Legacy Editions 
Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery – the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren’t forgotten, they’ve just been shelved. It’s time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency! 
As a part of the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Collection, this unabridged volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any handcrafter’s or outdoorsperson’s library and that can be passed to future generations.

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Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins

Home Tanning and Leather Making Guide

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit

Home Tanning And Leather Making Guide (Legacy Edition): The Classic Manual For Working With And Preserving Your Own Buckskin, Hides, Skins, and Furs (Library of American Outdoors Classics)

Home Tanning And Leather Making Guide (Legacy Edition): The Classic Manual For Working With And Preserving Your Own Buckskin, Hides, Skins, and Furs (The Library of American Outdoors Classics)

Home Taxidermy For Pleasure And Profit (Legacy Edition): A Classic Manual On Traditional Animal Stuffing and Display Techniques And Preservation ... Doublebit Library of Tanning and Taxidermy)