• heat conservation [ layering ; breath-trapping]
• hide-tanning & leather-working [ hair on / hair off; framing & fleshing/scraping; sewing holes ; brain , bark , egg tanning; soaking; breaking / stretching / softening ; smoking ; making scrapers , frames , smokers ]
• hide-tanning tools [hide-scrapers; fleshing beams ]
• hide materials [ rawhide ; tanned leather ; tanned bladders ]
• hide-storing [ freezing ; salting ; air-drying]
• textiles preparation [ scouring ; teasing ; carding ; combing ; retting ; breaking ; scutching ; hackling]
• textiles weaving [ hand spinning ; drafting ; weaving ; backstrap looms ; stick loomshed; knitting ; crocheting ; darning ]
• clothing tools [wooden awl , bone needle ]
• natural needle & thread [e.g. agave ]
• natural dye basics [soaking; many dyes require an alum as a mordant to set color ]
• popular natural dyes , orange [ alder bark , bloodroot , sassafras , onion skin, lichen , carrot , lilac twig , barberry , giant coreopsis, turmeric , pomegranate , butternut seed husk , eucalyptus ]
• popular natural dyes , brown [wild plum root , oak bark , sumac leaf , dandelion root , broom bark , walnut hull & husk , white birch inner bark , juniper berry , fennel flowers & leaves , acorns ( boiled ), hollyhock petals , Colorado fir bark , yellow dock , beetroot , mapletree leaf buds , amur maple, ivy twigs , pine tree bark , white maple bark , birch bark , St.John 's Wort blossom , broom sedge, coneflower flower , goldenrod shoot ]
• popular natural dyes , pink [strawberry, avocado skin & seed , cherry, raspberry, roseor lavendar w/ mint or lemon juice , lichen , camilla w/ lemon & salt, grand fir bark ]
• popular natural dyes , blue-purple [ dogwood bark , red cabbage , woad 1 st yearleaves, mulberry , elderberry , saffron petal, grape , blueberry , cornflower petal, cherryroot, blackberry fruit , hyacinth flower , Japanese indigo, indigo leaf , red cedar root ,raspberry fruit , red maple inner bark , nearly black iris , dogwood fruit , oregon grape fruit , purple iris , sweetgum bark , Queen Anne 's lace ]
• popular natural dyes , red-brown [ elderberry , pomegranate , sumac fruit , sycamorebark, dandelion root , beet , bamboo , crab apple bark , rose hips , chokecherry , madderroot, dried hibiscus flower , Canadian hemlock bark , Japanese yew heartwood , blackberry , Brazilwood , St . John's wort soaked in alcohol , bedstraw root ]
• popular natural dyes , grey-black [ iris root , sumac leaf , meadowsweet , blackberry , butternut hull , boiled carob pod , oak gall , sawthorn oak seed cup , walnut hull ]
• popular natural dyes , red-purple [ pokeweed beerry, hibiscus flower , old daylilyblooms, safflower flowers soaked in alcohol , logwood ,huckleberry, portulaca flowersdried & powdered , beluga black lentils soaked in water , dark hollyhock petal, basil]
• popular natural dyes , green [ artemisia , artichoke , tea tree flower , spinach leaf ,sorrel root , foxglove flower , lilac flower , camelia petals , snapdragon flower , black-eyedsusans, grass , pigsweed, red pine pine needle , nettle , broom stem , larkspur , plantain root , white ash bark , purple milkweed flower & leaf , barberry root , red onion skin, yarrowflower, mulga acacia seed pod , peach leaf , coneflower flower , peppermint, QueenAnne's lace , hydrangea flower , chamomile leaf )
• popular natural dyes , peach-salmon [ jewelweed , broom flower , Virginia creeper, annatto tree seed , plum tree root , weeping willow wood & bark , balm blossom ]
• popular natural dyes , yellow-wheat [ bay leaf , barberry bark , crocus , fustic , saffronstigma, safflower flower soaked in water , sassafras bark , syrian rue , red clover , yellowcone flower head , onion skin, alfalfa seed , marigold blossom , willow leaf , Queen Anne 'slace, heather, St . John's wort flower & leaf , burdock , celery leaf , golden rod flower , sumac bark & inner pith , weld , old man 's beard lichen , Oregon grape root , chameleonplant, mimosa flower , dandelion flower , osage orange heartwood & inner bark , drieddaffodil flower head , mullein leaf & root , hickory leaf , dock ( yellow , curly , bitter , butter ),white mulberry tree bark , paprika , peach leaf , beetroot , turmeric , wood sorrel flower , dahlia flower , mulga acacia flower , sunflower flower , dyer 's greenwood shoot , tansytops, yarrow ]
• sewing [ knotting ; back tack ; backstitch ; basting stitch ; blind stitch; chain stitch ; cross-stitch ; catch stitch ; cross-stitch tack ; darning stick; pad stitch; running stitch ; sailmaker 'sstitch; tent stitch ; topstitch; whipstich]
• hemming [ blanket stitch ; slant hemming ; couch stitch ; slip hemming ; herringbonestitch; blind hemming stitch ; blind herringbone stitch; buttonhole stitch ; pick stitch]
• tailoring [ sizing ; cutting ; patching ; buttoning; zippers ]
• tire-sandals [ peeling ; removing metal threading ]
• boot-repair
• mittens & gloves
• carriers [tumplines, backpacks , pouches ]
• spindle-making [ discs ; dowels ; hooks ; glue ]
• needles & thread [ making & using]
• earthen shoes [ birch bark ]
• snow shoes [ brush ; cordage ; sledge]
• earthen buttons [ eucalyptus ; bone ; antler]
• snow goggles & pinhole goggles
• earthen hats [ cattails ]
• raincapes [e.g. cattails , phragmites ]
• rainhoods [e.g. birch bark , elm bark , cedar]