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Furniture maker
Windsor chair maker
Chair repairer
The local furniture maker would be called upon to make
all manner of things from farm implements to coffins. The majority of
his customers would call on his skills for simple serviceable furniture,
mainly in oak.
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The use of locally-grown materials, usually oak or ash or walnut has given a natural appearance to their work which was a result of sympathy with the wood itself as well as an understanding of the needs of the user. |
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Using an adaze to fashion the surface
of a piece of oak |
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Wilf Hutchinson, furniture maker of Husthwaite North Yorkshire, putting his trade mark squirrel on an oak sideboard. |
Windsor chairs have been popular since the 18th Century
and are usually fashioned from solid English wood.
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Brian Marlowe had a workshop high above Haworth where
he designed and made a range of Windsor chairs using a lathe to
turn the legs and back spindles. |
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A craftsman at Taylor Brothers of Ulleskelf near Selby
repairs a chair bottom using twisted and woven rushes. |