Book of Donmon Teith

Introduces the tools, equipment, and techniques used in tanning hides and tells how to make useful objects out of leather.

A step-by-step guide to making vests, belts, and wallets by home tanning and hand-working furs and leathers. 138,000 copies in print.

First edition published under title, Deerskins into buckskins: how to tan with natural materials; a field guide for hunters and gatherers, c1997.

An exceptionally thorough and readable do-it-yourself book on making animal skins into leather, tanning fur and leather and basic taxidermy.

Even in the 21st Century, the manufacture of leather retains an air of the dark arts, still somewhat shrouded in the mysteries of a millennia old, craft based i