Synopsis
A book of over 300 patterns for traditional craft designs featuring projects ranging from fences, gates, garden furniture, through benches and stools to light pulls and door wedges - all with metric and imperial dimensions. Each item has annotated black and white line drawings and patterns, a brief description, historical details where relevant and information on the materials that should be used, where this is critical to the process. Both an historical record and a sourcebook for those looking to use their green woodworking skills to make traditional items of beauty, the book covers: Special tools and devices: cleaves, froes, rounders, shaves, horses and setting frames; Fencing and gates: post and rail, pales, gate hurdles, wattles, cottage gates, field gates; Garden furniture: borders, pea-sticks, stakes, pergolas, trellises; Green wood in building: thatching wood, shingles, lathes and wattles; Wooden tools: rakes, besoms, mallets, chisel handles, axes, billhooks, scythe handles, st
About the Author
Ray Tabor has worked for 20 years in a woodland nature reserve, producing and selling traditional products. He chairs the conservation activities of the UK's largest Wildlife Trust, leads courses in woodland crafts and management and writes regularly on crafts, tools and woodland conservation. His bestselling Traditional Woodland Crafts, also published by B T Batsford, has reprinted several times. He lives in Sudbury, Suffolk.
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