American Windsor Chairs
Title | American Windsor Chairs PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Goyne Evans |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9781555951122 |
Definitive reference on classic American collectible. 744 pages, 1,000 illustrations, checklist of 2,400 chairmakers, more.
Windsor Chairs
Title | Windsor Chairs PDF eBook |
Author | Wallace Nutting |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 0486158039 |
100 different types of Windsor chairs and other furniture. Full-page photos of side chairs, armchairs, comb-backs, writing-arm chairs, babies' high-backs and low chairs, settees, love seats, stools, and tables. Informative text.
Windsor Chairmaking
Title | Windsor Chairmaking PDF eBook |
Author | James Mursell |
Publisher | Crowood Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Furniture making |
ISBN | 9781847971548 |
Windsor chairs are a beautiful and traditional feature in any home. Celebrate their history, and learn their heritage. Both novice and experienced woodworkers can learn how to make a Windsor chair that is both functional and beautifully shaped.
Chairmaker's Notebook
Title | Chairmaker's Notebook PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Galbert |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-03-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780990623038 |
A complete treatise on building Windsor chairs, hand-illustrated by the author.
Welsh Stick Chairs
Title | Welsh Stick Chairs PDF eBook |
Author | John Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2009-05-14 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9780854420834 |
This work provides an insight into the history of Welsh stick chairs and includes instructions on how to make a chair, covering methods of bending the wood for chair construction. Illustrations show each stage in the building process.
The Stick Chair Book
Title | The Stick Chair Book PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Schwarz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-09 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781954697157 |
"..."The Stick Chair Book" is divided into three sections. The first section, "Thinking About Chairs," introduces you to the world of common stick chairs, plus the tools and wood to build them. The second section - "Chairmaking Techniques" - covers every process involved in making a chair, from cutting stout legs, to making curved arms with straight wood, to carving the seat. Plus, you'll get a taste for the wide variety of shapes you can use. The chapter on seats shows you how to lay out 14 different seat shapes. The chapter on legs has 16 common forms that can be made with only a couple handplanes. Add those to the 11 different arm shapes, six arm-joinery options, 14 shapes for hands, seven stretcher shapes and 11 combs, and you could make stick chairs your entire life without ever making the same one twice. The final section offers detailed plans for five stick chairs, from a basic Irish armchair to a dramatic Scottish comb-back. These five chair designs are a great jumping-off point for making stick chairs of your own design. Additional chapters in the book cover chair comfort, finishing and sharpening the tools. From the author: "When I first wrote 'The Stick Chair Book' in 2021, I was also fighting cancer. So I hammered out the text with urgency and the desire to record every fragment of information I knew about chairmaking. "To be fair, that's usually how I go about writing all my books. But then I typically take a couple months off, put the manuscript aside, then revisit it with fresh eyes and a sharpened pen. My final revisions remove about 10-20 percent of the original material. The stuff I cut is usually chapters that don't match the tone of the rest of the text. Or I snip sections that aren't as relevant as when I first wrote them. I also smooth out the writing and add bits of information I'd forgotten during the first brain-to-fingers dump. "And that's exactly what I've done for this revised edition. As a result, the text is 10.1 percent shorter than the first edition. It's more to the point. And it's where the manuscript would have ended up under normal conditions..."--Publisher's website.
The Book of American Windsor Furniture
Title | The Book of American Windsor Furniture PDF eBook |
Author | John Kassay |
Publisher | Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN |
Combining comfort, simplicity and craftsmanship, Windsor chairs have long been prized by collectors. Introduced from England in the early 1700s, the Windsor style took hold in America first as seating for the well-to-do and later as the favourite chair of the general population. Included in the Windsor family are stools, tables, settees, high chairs, cradles and candle stands, but the greatest variety is found in the chairs, which range from comb-back to bow-back to step-down versions. Their makers took advantage of the natural properties of different woods for particular components of the chairs, employing hickory, red oak, or ash for bent parts, maple for turnings and pine for seats.