Green Woodworking Pattern Book

Green Woodworking Pattern Book by Tabor, Ray. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780713489149.

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, st