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.
