Primitive Crafts

Answer to Snow Tracks in Croatia Blog

  Tracks in the snow, but what caused it and why?  In our previous blog we took a closer look at the above animal sign and invited you to share your thoughts on what you think had happened here and what had caused it, read on to find out the answer and if you are the winner […]

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Tallow Candle

In this blog we are going to be processing fuel from animal fat into tallow that we can then use to make a candle to help illuminate the encroaching darkness at this time of year. Tallow candles bringing light to the dark evenings

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Bushcraft Torches and Lanterns Part 4 – Greater Reedmace and Rag Torches

In this, our fourth and final blog of this series we will be looking at a comparison between two hand held torches, along with some different fuel options. Namely greater reedmace (nature’s own hand held lantern) against a rag torch, depicted in just about every survival movie out there. Hand held

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Bushcraft Torches and Lanterns Part 3 – Pinch pots and Wicks

In this blog we are going to take a look at some pinch pot lamps, how we may improve upon them and utilising different natural wicks we have made.

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Bushcraft Torches and Lanterns Part 2 – Birch Bark Torches

In part one of the series of blogs entitled “Bushcraft Torches and Lanterns” we took a look at the spruce resin lantern. In part two we will be focusing on a native tree to our shores, and one that will be very  familiar to practitioners of bushcraft, for a wide variety of reasons. The silver [

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Woodland Wayer Hide working weekends

Here is a brief insight into some of the skills of our Woodland Wayers in this case an overview of our two hide work weekends where our students begin with a raw deer skin and go home with soft smoked buckskin.

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Otzi

The day I became aware of Otzi was the day I changed my direction in the study bushcraft. I had been learning and practising bushcraft and survival skills with some enthusiam for quite a few years before I chanced upon some reference to ‘The Man In The Ice’, surprising perhaps as this is

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Bone Breaking Discoveries

In this short blog I will be sharing with you some of the accidental and often very useful discoveries I have made while working bone. I’m a great believer that you learn as much from your failures as you do from your successes and that’s exactly what this blog is about.

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Bone – A Forgotten Resource

For the past few years, I have increasingly grown more and more fascinated with bone as a resource in primitive skills and crafts. In today’s study of  Bushcraft skills, people tend to gravitate towards those skills that are perceived to be either easy or exciting and some harder and less appeali

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The Hunter-Gatherer – Equipment List

If like me you find yourself spending far too much of your time imagining being a prehistoric hunter-gatherer and running around the woods living off the land then this blog is probably going to be of some interest to you.   In this series of blogs I thought it would be a cool idea to […

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