Videos
 | Deerskins Into Buckskins by Matt
Richards
* America's best selling tanning guide, now on video!
Crucial if you don't have access to hands-on instruction
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Helps you see how to do each step of the wet-scrape process
* Up-to-date with the latest info and most efficient methods
* More than two hours of detailed, expert, step-by-step instruction
Two years in the making, this video is easily the most
detailed,
comprehensive and easy to follow guide to brain tanning. Novices get to
see what each step looks like: what it looks like when the grain is
coming off properly, how much effort goes into softening, what
different odd textures on the skin mean, what good, pumping smoke looks
like and on and on. This kind of stuff is incredibly helpful in
learning this tactile art.
Experienced tanners will appreciate learning the tweaks and
improvements that Matt has learned in the six years since he wrote
Deerskins into Buckskins (and received ideas and feedback from
thousands of tanners); including the 15 minute step that makes a whole
series of improvements in the process (easier, more thorough brain
penetration, easier to soften hides, and hides that turn out
incredibly, incredibly, soft in the end). We guarantee that you'll
learn a lot from this video.
DVD
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$25.00
|  | Primitive Cooking
by Richard Jamison
Covers pit, stone oven, spit skewer, and ash cooking, five
unique
methods with no cleanup mess, and how to build effective fires for
specific types of cooking.
30 minutes. $25
|  | Primitive Pottery
by Wayne Bryan
Coil and scrape hand built technique, beginning with finding
and
preparing natural days, then molding, applying slip, polishing,
decorating, and outdoors firing.
60 minutes. $45
|  | Welcome Back to the Stone Age:
Beginning and Intermediate Flint Knapping
by
Woody Blackwell
In this two-hour video, one of the world's finest knappers
presents and entertaining and informative introduction to this historic
craft. Woody Blackwell skillfully demonstrates tools and techniques
while passing on mnay valuable tips. Close-up video shots reveal all
the subtle but essential methods to successfully make a variety of
stone tools. This video provides beginners with a thorough introduction
the craft. Intermediate knappers can refer to the tape time after time
for inspiration and to learn and hone their skills.
Features on this video:
- History
-
Safety
- Percussion Flaking
- Pressure Flaking
- Platforming
- Notching
- Serrating
- Fluting
- Tools
- Sawn Slabs
-
Problem Solving
- Sources
- Materials
- Ethics
120 minutes. $30
|  | Moccasin Making: A Craft Video
on North American Indian Footwear
DVD
by Frank White
Learn to make authentic Indian Moccasins. Appropriate for
the
classroom or individual use. Easy to follow instructions for the
beginner. Helpful tips and suggestions for the experienced
craftsperson.
- Step-by-step instructions for making a pair of "side seam"
moccassins
- A list of necessary tools and equipment
- Pattern making
- Leather of moccasins: names and types
- Advanced sewing techniques
A visual guide to accompany the Craft
Manual of North American Indian Footwear.
DVD, 53 minutes. $15
|  | Friction Fire & Plant
Fiber Cordage
by Jim Riggs
This educational and enjoyable video covers how to make and
use
bowdrill and handdrill fire sets, and create plant cordage from
scratch, so those of you at home looking for quality instruction can
get a bird's eye view of some great techniques.
Both the bowdrill and more primitive handdrill methods are
covered
in their entirety, including selection of materials, preparation, and
troubleshooting. The cordage portion of the video shows the preparation
of raw fiber using three different stem fiber plants, then illustrates
three twining methods for creating cordage.
Friction Fire and Plant Fiber Cordage were originally
produced by
Northwestern Video Productions, now part of HOPS Press, LLC. HOPS Press
has digitally remastered the two and combined them so you get two great
videos for the price of one! Recorded on certified quality recycled VHS
tapes for an environmentally friendly product!
Jim Riggs has been a leader in experimental archeology since
the
1970's, actively using primitive skills to learn and teach about our
past. He taught ethnobotany and aboriginal life skills classes at
Oregon's Pacific University's Malheur Field Station. Jim Riggs was also
a primitive skills advisor for the movie Clan of the Cave Bear.
104 minutes, $30.00
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