Green Woodworking Pattern Book: Over 300 Traditional Craft Designs - Softcover

Tabor, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713489146 ISBN 13: 9780713489149

Publisher: Batsford, 2005

Synopsis

Green woodworking involves the use of freshly-felled timber (unseasoned wood), and embraces a number of traditional woodland crafts, including turning and carving. This book contains over 300 patterns for traditional craft designs, from fences and gates to light pulls and door wedges – all with detailed dimensions. Each item has annotated black-and-white patterns, a brief description, historical information and details of the materials that should be used. Both a 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
• Fencing and gates
• Garden furniture
• Green wood in building
• Wooden tools
• Turnery and treen
• Benches and stools
• Chairs
• Baskets
• Plus: walking sticks, spoons, whistles, tent pegs and boot removers

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Batsford
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713489146
• ISBN 13: 9780713489149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240