Doomsday Defense Topic
Rebuilding Civilization
Traditional Crafts
Soap making, tanning hides, candle making, weaving and the other household trades our great-grandparents knew.
In the library
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Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
W. Hamilton Gibson's illustrated 1881 guide to camp shelters, log huts, canoes, and building and setting traps, snares and deadfalls.
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Soap-Making Manual
A 1922 chemist's handbook on soap: fats and oils, lye, the boiling process, and testing and controlling the product.