Bookbinding.

[Jim]

I wish you all the luck and hope you will keep us up to date with this. I am going to TRY it and see what I can do myself.

[Nigel]

This makes me happy to see.
I have always been a bit of a puritan when it comes to this kind of thing.. and teach my own son the very basic foundation blocks of survival. Where our food comes from, how to prepare and dress an animal for food.
Now I live in the city, so a few chickens is all we can have.. but thankfully we are still quite a rural country, in that I have mates that are farmers, and within a 30 minute drive. So he gets to see the animals being born etc

The use of these natural materials, wool, skins etc is knowlege that would have been common place 3 generations ago, and now is an indangered species itself!
Bookbinding is something I have always looked into, but never actually got around to. I've looked at the book of Kells, and seen the work those monks did so many centuries ago.. it is fantastic.

Anyway.. (I have a habit of going off in many tangents ) I plan to record as many natural things as possible before it is lost to us. A wee 'survival' book if you will.. but more than that, it is also a preserver of culture.