Ingrained is a love letter to trees, timber and craftsmanship – and to
finding your own voice.
The eldest son of a Master Woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his
childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing craft lessons in his
father’s workshop, playing amongst the sycamore, oak and Scots pine
that bordered his home. In time he became his father’s apprentice,
helping to create exquisite bespoke objects. But eventually the need to
find his own path led him to establish his own workshop; to chase ever
bigger and more commercial projects, to business meetings, bright
lights and bureaucracy, to lose touch with his roots. Until the
devastating loss of one major job threatened to bring it all crashing
down. Faced with the end of his business, his team and everything he
had worked so hard to build, he was forced to question what mattered
most.
In beautifully wrought prose, Callum tells the story of returning to
the workshop, and to the wood; to handcrafting furniture for people who
will love it, and then pass it on to the next generation – antidotes to
a culture where everything seems so easily disposable. As he does so,
he brings us closer to nature, and to the physical act of creation.
Close enough to smell the sawdust, to see the wood’s grain and
character and to feel the magic of furniture coming to life. At the
same time, we begin to understand how he has been shaped, as both a
craftsman and a son.
Blending memoir and nature writing at its finest, Ingrained is an
uplifting meditation on the challenges of working with your hands in
our modern age, on community, consumerism, and the beauty of the
natural world – one that asks us to see our local trees, and our own
wooden objects, in a new and revelatory light.
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