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Slow Tech: The Perfect Antidote to Today's Digital World: Forge * Carve* Weave * Mould * Ignite
The illustrated Slow Tech Manual will interest historians and re-enactors, parents managing their children's screen time, and young adults looking for mindful and practical escapes from the digital age
Featuring topics such as building bread ovens, making clay pots in a bonfire, felling and processing trees, cooking on open fires, blacksmithing, beer making, wattle and daubing, this book is a combination of the dangerous book for boys and a practical manual of experimental archaeology and historical research. Highly readable and hugely practical, the book is either armchair reading or a valuable guide to getting your hands dirty and creating something useful as you discover the art of slow technology. Light a fire without matches and cook a meal on it. Weave a basket, build a bread oven in your back garden and brew your own beer. Go camping in the wild, build a shelter, catch fish without a rod, and teach your kids how to knap flint. Whether you decide to try to make your own forge in the garden, carve a wooden spoon, build a dry-stone wall, or process your own salt, you will be reconnecting with your own practical abilities and creative impulses.
Featuring topics such as building bread ovens, making clay pots in a bonfire, felling and processing trees, cooking on open fires, blacksmithing, beer making, wattle and daubing, this book is a combination of the dangerous book for boys and a practical manual of experimental archaeology and historical research. Highly readable and hugely practical, the book is either armchair reading or a valuable guide to getting your hands dirty and creating something useful as you discover the art of slow technology. Light a fire without matches and cook a meal on it. Weave a basket, build a bread oven in your back garden and brew your own beer. Go camping in the wild, build a shelter, catch fish without a rod, and teach your kids how to knap flint. Whether you decide to try to make your own forge in the garden, carve a wooden spoon, build a dry-stone wall, or process your own salt, you will be reconnecting with your own practical abilities and creative impulses.
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154 pages, Hardcover
Published November 26, 2019
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August 15, 2021
Great book for anyone who wants to be self sufficient or learn traditional methods of creating practical items. I have my list of projects to share with friends and family to distract them away from electronics and social media, and create something with our hands from 'raw materials', that was once upon a time, someone's occupation.
I hope Peter Ginn writes more books on these subjects - fascinating, and a great way to pass on and keep old methods alive!
I hope Peter Ginn writes more books on these subjects - fascinating, and a great way to pass on and keep old methods alive!
April 20, 2021
A Fantastic book! These are the everyday "must be able to do" tasks of the past, still relevant today. The pictures are great and the explanations as good as they can be in this format. It certainly left me wanting more; more lost arts, more things to try, more ways to develop self sufficiency. This is not an in depth course on any of the techniques, it is to inspire you to try new things, to get you to develop skills, to wet your whistle. I really love this book!
April 9, 2020
Beautiful photos. Inspiring book. Less than adequate writing. Could have been a great book if the editor helped out the author a bit.
June 13, 2023
Gorgeous pictures. Wide variety of diy old world projects - make a fishing pole, mortar and pestle, candles, tan leather. None look hella complicated and most don’t use a lot of specialized tools.
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