Secrets of Eskimo Skin Sewing
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Book Overview
Still the definitive guide, Secrets of Eskimo Skin Sewing is packed with clear, easy-to-understand instructions, drawings, and photographs to lead readers of any skill level through the process of turning natural or man-made furs and hides into handsome, useful garments. Author Edna Wilder, one of the world's best-known practitioners and modernizers of traditional Eskimo skin sewing techniques, takes would-be skin sewers through the step-by-step work involved in constructing traditional items of clothing such as mukluks, parkas, and mittens. She also includes sewing instructions for belts, baby booties, a trapper-style fur cap, and toys. Though natural fur and hides were the only ones known in traditional Eskimo lifeways, the book's guidance is completely adaptable to modern, synthetic leathers and artificial furs. Similarly, the guidance offered in these pages on traditional Native beadwork and basket making works just as well for plastic beads and basketry materials unknown to the Alaska wilderness.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1889963127
ISBN13:9781889963129
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:University of Alaska Press
Length:132 Pages
Weight:0.47 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Good source for information
Published by Shelly , 8 months ago
I'm using this book to make my own parka in a different style and pattern than theirs. I bought it to learn about materials and the sewing or stitches. Not a great deal of details but still a really good source for understanding the process. Does have a few patterns in it. Includes various different items. Great for those learning, researching the history (the way I started), or just for curiosity for history buffs.
Great book for anyone
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I bought this book almost twenty years ago and have found none since that compare in information about sewing animal skins. A must have for any real purist.
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