Learning to make Windsor chairs
I like to keep learning about wood as a material, and learning new skills. Learning to make Windsor chairs has been something I have wanted to try, so with the aid of a good book, Youtube, and long distance advice …
Author: ianfrase
Long Lands Common
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot”, and “You don’t know what you’ve got, until it’s gone” are lines from a great song, Big Yellow Taxi, from the incomparable Joni Mitchell. Depletion of nature and biodiversity loss has …
Each One Lost
The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota, has sparked huge protests across the USA, inflamed by a president who knows only how to divide and destroy, and who then stands in front of a church holding …
Customer Dee Hardwicke, knitwear designer and artist
Dee Hardwicke is a very accomplished and well known designer, artist and knitter, and now a customer of mine! Through Stonegate Gallery, Ingleton, she purchased one of my North American cherry basket and tray combinations, and a presentation box with …
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Another satisfied customer
I was commissioned to make an extra large Shaker box as a part of a wedding gift to house a book and a special shawl that itself had been made especially for the bride. I did not have the templates …
Northern Star 2019, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, Lancashire
I feel very honoured to have been asked to exhibit my Shaker inspired bentwood trays, baskets, bowls and boxes at this year’s Northern Star at the prestigious Platform Gallery, in the charming market town of Clitheroe, in the Ribble Valley, …
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Summer Show, Just Makers, RHS Harlow Carr Gardens
My work features again at the Just Makers Gallery, RHS Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate. The show runs from 31/07/2019 to 08/09/2019.
Another new product, and getting ready for the British Craft Trade Fair, 7-9 April 2019
The design, in marquetry, is the Shaker Tree Of Life. The background veneer is ripple sycamore, the tree trunk is figured walnut, and the greens and red are dyed magnolia. The basket side and swing handle are in North American …
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New product
A new version of my swing handle basket…… it now has the option of a shallow drop-in tray. Available in the usual timbers I work with, European oak, North American cherry, and black walnut.