Slow Tech

Forge • Carve • Weave • Mould • Ignite

Highly readable and hugely practical, this book is either armchair reading or a valuable guide to getting your hands dirty and creating something useful as you discover the art of slow technology.

Featuring topics such as building bread ovens, making clay pots in a bonfire, felling and processing trees, cooking on open fires, blacksmithing, beer making, wattle and daubing, this book is a combination of the dangerous book for boys and a practical manual of experimental archaeology and historical research.

• Building bread ovens
• Making clay pots in a bonfire
• Felling and processing trees
• Cooking on open fires
• Blacksmithing
• Beer making
• Wattle and daubing

Author Peter Ginn is an archaeologist and historian who graduated from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and has a particular interest in experimental archaeology. His research interests include Egyptology, field archaeology and primitive technologies, and he specialises in 19th-century farming practice.

Peter is best known for his BBC TV appearances in series such as Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Secrets of the Castle and A Tudor Feast at Christmas. Peter now lives in Somerset in an amazing Victorian property that he is renovating.