Galleries & Lagniappes

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Sandals
Pouches
Bags
Belts
Wallets
Saddle-Stitching, Piping & Welt-Seam Techniques
Glossary of Shoe Types
Sole Survivor  One man's quest to find the best shoes ever made
Glossary of Footwear Terminology
Making Your Own LotRs  
San Francisco's Poetsch & Peterson Tannery Archive
West Coast Historical Tannery Archive
George Barnsley & Sons Leather Tools
Hermann Oak© Tannery Tour
Parts of the Western Saddle
Working in Harness - A Saddler's Shop
The Honourable Cordwainers’ Company
Saddle-Soaping, Applying Dubbin, Repairs
Red Crow Leather
Leather & Glass Artists Compare Notes
Body Leather
Martin Jackson, Calligrapher
Pender Islands Saturday Farmers Market
Pender Islands, British Columbia
Pender Islands Fall Fair
Pender Islands Conservancy Association 
Mudflats Living, Shangri-la, & Malcolm Lowry
Vancouver Arts in the ‘60s
Art-glass 
Crafting a Life
A Social Activist's Ultimate Legacy   Death with dignity
Mrs. Blunt's Bequest
Solar  25 years before the mast
SmugMug Photographic Galleries Index
Preliminary Assessment of Subtidal Habitat
Implications of Sea Level Rise to Coastal BC Waters
Mediator training manual - Humboldt Mediation
A Green Speech from the Throne
Our Renewable Future by Richard Heinberg
Could BC Become a 100% Renewable Energy Region?
“The American Love Affair w/the Automobile”  The Unspoken History of the Electric Car
David Boyd "The Optimistic Environmentalist” 

February 7, 2014  Pender Islands Conservancy Association potluck presentation

Kilowatts & Kilowatt-hours
Are you killing your lithium batteries?
Stoner Panels

Genetic Roulette - The Gamble of Our Lives
DeLuxe Utopian Vision: Q & A with Davy
Knee Deep in the Mudflats: Q & A with
photographer Bruce Stewart

National Film Board Mudflats Living
The Be-In  Vancouver, 1967
What Happened Last Summer  Kits, 1967
Nard & Pat 
My first wife, Vera
Catonsville Nine On the run in the ‘60s

                          Books
On the Road
    📖 Travels of Jack Kerouac across America   full text
Siddhartha  📖 A Journey to Enlightenment - download the book
The Good Earth  📖 Pearl S Buck   full text
The Blind Watchmaker  📖  Richard Dawkins   full text
Kim   📖  Rudyard Kipling    full text
Food of the Gods 📖  Terrence McKenna   full text
The Doors of Perception 📖 Aldous Huxley   full text
Two Years Before the Mast  📖  A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea  full text  
My Grandfather’s Old Ram   From Roughing It  by Mark Twain  

The Brendan Voyage  Forty-nine oxhides stitched together & stretched over a wooden frame.
Wine & climate change  Kimberly Nicholas
Will we Still Enjoy Pinot Noir?
Put that Damned Old Mattock Away  Excerpts from David J Spalding’s writing.
don marquis  Toujours gai, always the lady  

Jayzey Lynch
How Quirky was Berkeley?
The Realist
The Man who Turned on the World  The Millbrook Happenings
Cranberry Lake's Summer of Drugs  Meanwhile, at Cranberry Lake
The Prince of Possibility   Ken Kesey seemed capable of making anything happen
Woody Guthrie's New Years Rulin’s

The Psychedelic Experience   A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead   full text
The Houseboat Summit, 1967Alan Watts, Tim Leary
Allen Ginsberg
& Gary Snyder

Drugs and the 
meaning of life

Legalize it all


Owsley "Bear” Stanley

Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet   Consider implications before you judge
Our man in Fiorenza
Paen to Irene Roberts
Sandal heel & sole replacements
Leatherworkers Events 2016 - 2019
Genuine Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium 
Alternative materials to leather: environmental impacts & cost
Hide and skin production around the world
The entire epidermal layer of your skin turns over every 48 days
Reducing water use in tanneries
Wood-chopping Charity Struck a Cord
How the Web became unreadable
Gallery of Ansel Adams tannery photos
New York Kika
NY Leatherdesign
Vermont Rilleau Leather 
World Corporation Control
Fine Leatherworking
Videos: Leather goods makers old and new
Thomas Ware & Sons Tannery  
Gerberei Martin, traditional oak bark sole leather tannery   
J.&F.J. Baker Britain's only remaining traditional oak bark tannery
Connolly Leather
Are you killing your lithium batteries?
Obituary: John Perry Barlow
The White Darkness  A solitary journey across Antarctica
The Roast of San Francisco 
How to Roast Coffee 
Power for the Pignic
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
What Really Happens to Your Rubbish?
Friends of PICA
How to Get Rid of Brown Recluses

Archive


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Fez tannery
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Fez, Morroco  goatskin dye yards

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Chouara Tannery Fez
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Sheet bend knot - learn to tie it!



A 3000 year old wooden toe prosthetic discovered on an Egyptian mummy.

Researchers believe this to be one of the oldest prosthetic devices.
The wooden toe was refitted several times.  Based on the meticulous construction of this ancient prosthetic it was determined that the wearer, a priest’s daughter, wanted the toe to look natural and be as comfortable as possible.