Leather and natural Crafts to Make

Leather shoes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=766slOm7e08

Salmon skin leather (made in Sweeden):

take off meat and fat
soak in wood ash
secure with salt keeping around ph of 4?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0ASwSQP0o

nettle fabric:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2012/austrian-nettle-fabric-tells-of-bronze-age-trade

Richter found the why nettles sometimes rot during processing stages reason. Nettles contain much fruit sugar, which is all steeped out during the first half day that the plants lie in water; and then a fermentation process sets in. This fermentation is due to the development of bacteria that feed upon the sugar and then destroy the value of the fibre. After Richter established these facts, he had only to draw off the water after soaking the nettles for twelve hours, and then turn on fresh water. Now another class of bacteria, which do not attack the fibre, is developed, and rotting proceeds as normally as with flax.

http://www.nettlesoup.info/nettlecloth.htm

http://suite101.com/article/stinging-nettle-a-natural-sustainable-fabric-a269372

http://www.swicofil.com/products/016nettle.html