Leaving Tracks: A Maine Tradition

How to make traditional snowshoes. An extensive guide to making traditional snowshoes. Detailed diagrams, pictures, weaving patterns and tool making. This book shows how my dad and I select the ash tree in the woods, process cow hides, shape the wood into frames, and make snowshoe molds. We describe the tools and show diagrams with measurements on how to weave traditional snowshoes. By putting a piece of rawhide and two sticks together, you get transportation. We call our snowshoes usable art. Theriault's Traditional Snowshoes.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Theriault Snowshoes
Published: 05/04/2014
ISBN: 9780991006991
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.44d