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product_id: 178580699
title: "Forgotten Arts and Crafts"
brand: "john seymour"
price: "A$184"
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reviews_count: 13
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# Forgotten Arts and Crafts

**Brand:** john seymour
**Price:** A$184
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Forgotten Arts and Crafts by john seymour
- **How much does it cost?** A$184 with free shipping
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Forgotten Arts and Crafts

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The "How Things Work" book for the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
  

*by D***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2006*

This book is simply amazing.  It collects within it, the major skills used to make the items one used during every-day life in colonial america and late 19th century england.  Items are described in great detail, as well as the trades and craftsmen who made them.  Diagrams, photos and pictures are all clear.This book is not a how-to guide, however.  You will need thorough instructions from elsewhere.  What it is is an encyclopedia of sadly-forgotten trades from days when everything was made somewhere other than China.There is indeed nothing about bookbinding as one reviewer mentioned.  I was rather bummed about that as well.  However, I can easily forgive this, since it's not what I would consider a "survival skill".  Forgotten Arts and Crafts highlights trades that contribute to the living and surviving of daily life, rather than the extras such as reading, music, etc, for the most part.  Coopers, tanners, butter-making, the care and tending of an old household pre-vaccum and washing, saddle-making, carpentry, farriers and blacksmiths, spinners, weavers, carpenters, etc... were all required to merely subsist in ye old days when everyone in a town or village was generally a deeply-skilled craftsman...those days before we had cars and super-transmorgrified mega-marts.  As sad as it makes me, a devopted book-lover, literacy and thus the making of books were not of that skill set.Anyway, this is a most excellent book for those interested in a project-starting book for ideas, as well as for writers, researchers, and history buffs of all kinds.  Heck, *I* don't like history and I loved this one.  Fascinating stuff.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Not so forgotten
  

*by N***C on Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2013*

This is an amazing compilation of various and assorted arts and crafts from the  past and current times. The book is filled with hundreds of photographs and drawings that add to the explanations and details. This isn't just a listing of art styles, it is a book containing knowledge that once was used everyday, This book preserves the basic knowledge of everyday life, from building the house, making furniture, to caring for it and feeding the family.  The back-to-nature green-living people should all have a copy. Yes it is that good and should be available in more public libraries for research. I have added this book to my collection of how-to and survival knowledge.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very interesying, fun, historical, not hands on.
  

*by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2021*

High on varirty and great descriptions. Low on "how to" details.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Forgotten Arts and Crafts
- The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-to-Basics Guide

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*Last updated: 2026-03-04*