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A step-by-step guide for creating home furnishings from resources
found in nature. The beautiful green results are, at the same time,
beautiful, functional, and sustainable. Taking the reader through
the projects are an international trio of talented women, working
artisans who share their enthusiasm and skill for rustic furniture.
Anita Willis of Arizona shows how to build a bow-back arm chair.
Mary Jane Sussko of Ontario, Canada, makes a a low chair with a
side table. Stella Larkin of Michigan takes driftwood harvested
from the shores of streams and lakes to make a beautiful round
mirror frame. Every step is carefully described and accompanied by
a clear, informative, color photograph. This book will inform,
inspire, and delight.
The author features three women who share their special designs of
rustic woodworking. Using the materials that nature provides, they
create beautiful furniture and accessories for home and garden. New
Yorker Jane Voorhees creates a picture frame using birch bark and
twigs. Skye Gregson, who lives among the Adirondack Mountains,
makes a diminutive three-legged table, with cherry burl top and
apple legs. From a log, sculptor Marcia Perry, of Michigan, carves
a cave-like child's chair with a delightful squirrel gracing the
top. All three bring considerable talent and creativity to their
work, which they freely share with readers. Each project is
illustrated with step-by-step color photos, and detailed
descriptions of the techniques employed, so readers have a clear
guide to creating the furniture.
Among the leading rustic furniture makers are a number of talented,
creative women. Taking nature's materials they create the
quintessential "green" furniture and practical items for home or
garden. Veronica Chenier of Ontario, Cassilda Brown of Alabama, and
Jo Kilmer of North Carolina, share their work in this book,
offering step-by-step instructions for three projects. Learn to
build a lampshade, a gothic-back chair, and a ladder-back chair.
Each project is documented from beginning to end with color
photographs and detailed captions, so readers have a clear guide to
creating the furniture in their own workshops.
The rustic furniture movement is part of the larger "green"
movement that aims toward a sustainable world. This sassafras and
willow furniture does its part by using renewable plant materials
and recycling waste wood to make functional, beautiful furniture
and accessories for the home and garden. The projects in this book
include a simple bench, a chair, and a baker's rack. All are easy
and require minimal tools. The step-by-step, illustrated
instructions take readers through the whole process, explaining in
detail what needs to be done and how to do it. The results are
beautiful furniture for use indoors or out.
Bent willow furniture, an early American craft, was a familiar
sight on the front porches of America until the 1930s. Now in an
easy to follow, step-by-step instructional book, one of Americas
foremost makers of twig furniture shares the technique. Starting
with a basic arm chair, he also shows the creative possibilities of
the form. Each step is illustrated with a full color photograph,
making it easy to construct garden furniture for your home.
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