Traditional Woodland Crafts

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.