Description
A Note from the Producers:
In 1986, we started The Preservation of the American Pioneer Crafts Series. Our goals are to promote an appreciation of our American heritage and to educate through an entertaining format how to recreate both the products and the lifestyle of the 18th century.
This 11 hour long, 5 DVD set includes:
PIONEERING DVD VOL. I. Clothing and accoutrements; making oil cloth, center seam moccasins, putting together your attire. Mark demonstrates how to dye cloth with walnut hulls, make tallow and create an authentic look.
Two hours long.
PIONEERING DVD VOL. II. Pioneer skills include firestarting with flint and steel, parching corn, open fire cooking, making char, running ball, woodslore, field dressing a deer and making jerkey. Special segment on braintanning deerskin with Paul Dinsmore.
Two hours long.
PIONEERING DVD VOL. III. Shoe packs, turkey calls, cooking fish and fowl, coffees, teas, food sacks, shelters, cows knee, match coat and much more.
PIONEERING DVD VOL. IV. More aspects of the pioneer lifestyle.
PIONEERING DVD VOL. V. Camp life, open fire cooking, speed loading, canoes and water crossing, hunting shirts, bark tanning deerskins and much more.
3 hours long.
THESE DVDs WERE PROFESSIONALLY RECORDED ON TOP QUALITY BROADCAST LEVEL EQUIPMENT.
