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Working with a pole-lathe
Mike and Tamsin Abbott

Professional Green Woodwork Instruction Since 1985

  • Courses in green woodwork, pole-lathe turning and chairmaking.
  • Demonstrations and talks on green-wood skills and woodlands.
  • Wooden produce such as chairs, tables, baby-rattles, etc.
  • Books on green-wood crafts.
     
    "A modest collection of hand-tools and a few age-old, easily constructed devices, are sufficient to turn a tree into a hurdle, a spoon, or a strong and elegant chair."
    Mike Abbott
    • Graduates and their handiwork

    Learn new skills on a Living Wood course ...
    • In convivial company, amidst beautiful English countryside
    • Getting fresh air, healthy exercise and eating wholesome food
    • Not having to drive a car or consume any electricity or gas during your stay
    • And at the end of it, take home a unique heirloom to add grace to your home.
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    "Working with an elemental material like wood, in the raw, outdoors, in a vibrant green wood, filled with birdsong, with like-minded people, simply makes you happy. The therapeutic and meditative benefits shouldn’t be underestimated, and making chairs from trees cultivates an appreciation of design and beauty. A respect for the past is inherent in using old techniques, and not just preserved in aspic or museum reconstruction. Rather it’s a living continuation, and in some cases improvement of the folk practices of the past." (Tom Ball, Brookhouse Wood assistant 2008).
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