Green Wood Chairs

Author: Alison Ospina
Publisher: Stobart Davies Limited
ISBN: 9780854421510
Category : Chairs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
RURAL CRAFTS. Alison Ospina worked previously as a Furniture Maker and Woodwork Teacher. She formed Green Wood Chairs 10 years ago and since then has been designing and creating chairs of all shapes and sizes for a variety of customers and homes. Alison also teaches chair-making courses at her workshop in Skibbereen Co.Cork.

Living Wood

Author: Mike Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954234560
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
First published in 2002, Living Wood is both a practical manual and an inspirational guide, updating much of the information included in Mike's best-selling book Green Woodwork. Living Wood covers: • Becoming a green woodworke--Mike's story, from playing in the woodlands to owning a share in a woodland in Herefordshire • Buying, managing, and harvesting a woodland; • Developing woodland facilities, including tracks, steps, huts, a barn, a kitchen, and a compost toilet • Setting up a woodland workshop--plans for a shelter and updated designs for a shaving horse, a pole lathe, and other green wood-working tools and devices • Making ladder-back chairs, including cleaving, steam-bending, and techniques for ultra-tight joints without glue • Seating chairs with bark and with cord • A comprehensive list of suppliers, woodland organizations, and books Now in its fourth edition, Living Wood includes a selection of photographs of Mike’s latest workshop at Brookhouse Wood.

Make a Chair from a Tree

Author: Jennie Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781954697027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Green Wood Stools

Author: Alison Ospina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854421473
Category : Furniture making
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is a much-needed instruction and inspiration for anyone wanting to learn green woodworking and furniture making, or widen their existing skills. Beautifully illustrated and well written, Alison Ospina's latest book is essential for anyone with a passion for wood.

Green Woodworking

Author: Drew Langsner
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Welsh Stick Chairs

Author: John Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854420834
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
This work provides an insight into the history of Welsh stick chairs and includes instructions on how to make a chair, covering methods of bending the wood for chair construction. Illustrations show each stage in the building process.

The Stick Chair Book

Author: Christopher Schwarz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781954697034
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Young House Love

Author: Sherry Petersik
Publisher: Artisan
ISBN: 1579656765
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Chairmaker's Notebook

Author: Peter Galbert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990623038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A complete treatise on building Windsor chairs, hand-illustrated by the author.

The Forest Woodworker

Author: Sjors van der Meer
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1782217363
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Immerse yourself in the ancient craft of of green woodworking by making the tools you need as well as nine useful objects. Take your woodworking out of the workshop and into the forest, and immerse yourself in the ancient craft of working with fresh, green wood. Sjors van der Meer and Job Suijker introduce you to the traditional skills of green woodworking. Learn about the qualities of wood; how to cut and shape it; how to craft your own tools such as a shaving horse, wooden club, chopping block and saw horse, and then how to use them to make spoons, spatulas, stools and chairs. As well as teaching you new skills, this inspiring book will show you how working in natural surroundings, with natural materials, can create an overwhelming sense of well-being and enhance your awareness of the environment.