Traditional Woodland Crafts

by Ray Tabor (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $14.21

  A practical guide to green woodwork and the coppice crafts, showing how to use traditional tools and techniques to make traditional products from small round wood, and help in the conservation of the native woodland besides.

  The content includes:

  Woodmanship and Coppicing Tools Devices

  Buying, measuring and cutting

  Riving woodproducts for gardens

  FencingWood for thatching Tent pegs

  Withes Walking sticks

  Besom brooms

  Gate Hurdles

  Wattle hurdles

  The market place

  Raymond Tabor has worked for twenty years in a woodland nature reserve, producing and selling traditional products, leads courses in woodland crafts and management, and has written regularly on crafts, tools and woodland conservation, including a booklet on coppicing. This is the ultimate guide for any nature enthusiasts interested in woodland crafts.