Reading list

 

Design 

• James Krenov, The Impractical Cabinet Maker, Sterling 1993

• TIME LIFE books, Building Chairs, 1994

• John Brown, Welsh Stick Chairs, 1990

• Christopher Schwartz, The Anarchist's Design Book Expanded Edition, Jan 2019

• Christopher Schwartz, American Peasant, Lost Art Press

• Christopher Schwartz, The Stick Chair Book, Lost Art Press

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Social context

• Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger, Ireland 1845-1849, Penguin 1991

• Edward Laxton, The Famine Ships, The Irish Exodus to America 1846-51, 1997

• F.S.L. Lyons,  Ireland since the famine, Fontana Press 1971

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Historical context

• Aldren A Watson, Country Furniture, Jan 1974

• Roland Ennos, The Wood Age, Feb 2021

• Cecil A. Hewett, English Historic Carpentry, 1980

• Eric Sloane, Our Vanishing Landscape, Dover publications, 1955

• Mark Boyle, The Way Home - Tales from a life without technology, 2019

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​Fundamentals

• Charles H.Hayward, Woodwork Joints, 1975

• Charles H.Hayward, The Complete book of woodwork, Jan 1965

• Jim Tolpin, Measure Twice, Cut Once. Mar 2005

• Paul Sellers, Essential woodworking hand tools,  Dec 2015

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​​Makers

• Mark Ellison, How to build impossible things: lessons in life and carpentry, 2023

• David Pye, The Nature and Art of Workmanship, 1995

• Peter Korn, Why we make things and why it matters: The education of a craftsman, 2014​

• Tim & Betsan Bowen, The Welsh Stick Chair, a visual record, Pethe Press, 2025

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