Product Description

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, stable forks; Turnery and treen: door wedges, paper knives, bag carriers, dibbers, light pulls, rattles; Benches and stools: pole benches, cleft benches, stools, rustic chairs; Chairs: twig chairs, Windsor chairs, comb-back chairs, wheelback chairs; Baskets: trugs, splints, swills, woven baskets; Life's luxuries: walking sticks, spoons, whistles, tent pegs, boot removers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #293331 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

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.

Customer Reviews

Green Woodworking - Very disappointing
This book is not accessible for the majority. From the start it uses terms that only the expert would understand. The only images in the book are of black and white sketches that look as though they have been drawn by a child. Furthermore, the sketches which are supposed to be patterns are not followed by any instructions at all. Overall, the book is a collection of black and white sketches that could be made by green woodworking. Item returned.

Not for the beginner
I would agree with the Gibbons reviewer in that this book is not comprehensible, certainly not for the beginner. Not even any beautiful photographs, just black and white sketches that I could not make head nor tail of. I would definitely NOT recommend this item.

Great inspiration for green woodworkers
I found it a VERY useful source of ideas and inspiration. The drawings are clear and allow you to make the devices shown; they are not high art. I have not made all the devices shown, but those I have made have been adequately covered. I now make the most delightful tent-pegs, thanks to this book!