Traditional Woodland Crafts

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.Raymond Tabor has worked for twenty years in a woodland nature reserve, producing and selling traditional products. He chairs the conservation activities of the largest Wildlife Trust in the country, leads courses in woodland crafts and management, and has written regularly on crafts, tools and woodland conservation, including a booklet on coppicing.

Contents Include Woodmanship and coppicing . Tools. Devices.Buying, measuring and cutting, Riving wood Products for gardens. Fencing. Wood for thatching Tent pegs. Withes . Walking sticks. Besom brooms Gate hurdles. Wattle hurdles. The marketplace.

Author: Raymond Tabor
Publisher: B.T. Batsford
Extra Details: Pictorial Card Covers 7 x 10 inches tall, 160,Lavishly illustrated with B&W photos and artworks throughout.