BobH Report post Posted December 10, 2011 (edited) I've been looking for good books on leather working. I was given a number of books by my brother who has been in the craft for several decades. The most instructive of them are The Leathercraft Book by Pat Hills and The Art of Hand Sewing Leather by Al Stohlman. I'm sure that there are many more good books that I don't know about. This led me to think that there might be a forum or list here of books with descriptions or reviews and evaluations of suitability for purpose. I've scanned the web site and done a search but haven't found anything like I envisioned. I wonder if there is enough interest in this topic to convince our webmaster to create a place for books titles and reviews and/or links to those that might exist elsewhere on the www. Edited December 10, 2011 by BobH Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dirtclod Report post Posted December 10, 2011 Take a look at your local libary and see what they have. Plus they can do a inter libary loan if you have the title. In the past i have done that a couple of times. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Denise Report post Posted December 10, 2011 Bob, There is the resources forum here: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showforum=20 There are lots of topics on different books as well as DVDs, leather sites, etc. I don't think it is exactly what you are thinking of, but is it close? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BobH Report post Posted December 11, 2011 Take a look at your local libary and see what they have. Plus they can do a inter libary loan if you have the title. In the past i have done that a couple of times. Thanks, DC. I've pretty much run the string on our local library. I will ask them to get IL books when I learn about good ones. What I'm looking for is reviews from folks to rifle in on good titles instead of shotgunning and having to sort through the chaff. Thanks for the suggestion. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BobH Report post Posted December 11, 2011 (edited) Bob, There is the resources forum here: http://leatherworker...hp?showforum=20 There are lots of topics on different books as well as DVDs, leather sites, etc. I don't think it is exactly what you are thinking of, but is it close? Thank you, Denise. I keep scanning forum topics and continue to learn a lot from all the good folks here. The problem is that the information is not as well catalogued as I would like it. Mind you I'm not being derogatory about leatherworker.net. The webmaster and moderators have created a terrific forum. I was simply throwing out a suggestion that I think would be very useful and would make the site even more valuable. I've been going through the site searching, scanning, and following threads. My efforts have been less efficient in terms of time spent because the material is sometimes less well catalogued than I'd like to find. For example. If the Resources forum were organized with sub-forums such as Books, magazines, online articles and tutorials, printed articles and how-to's, etc., it would make finding things much more efficient. Book review formats could be provided on a fill-in-the-blank arrangement making it much easier to collate, titles, authors' names, publication titles, article titles, etc. I appreciate that this would take some work with HTML to set up and ongoing moderation, but I think the results would justify the effort. I'll happily volunteer to do whatever is within my power to make this happen, too. Again, thank you for the response. Edited December 11, 2011 by BobH Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
