Windsor Chairmaking by Michael Dunbar

ISBN: 0854420096    EAN: 9780854420094

Publisher: Stobart

Binding: Hardcover

Copyright Date: 1977

Pub Date: December 31, 1977

Physical Info:  153 pages, 0.95 lbs

Condition: Used, Faded Lettering on Cover

A complete, illustrated history of the Windsor chair's development in America from the arrival of the first English models in about 1750 to the times of the chair factories in the nineteenth century.

For woodworkers who use hand tools and all others who appreciate products made before the machine age, Mr. Dunbar describes the craft and the craftsmen who produced some of the best engineered furniture ever made. 

In addition to this absorbing study the author shares his immense practical knowledge and gives the reader a detailed, step-by-step account of making a bow-back Windsor.

The construction is completely illustrated with photos of himself using all the 18th century techniques and his antique chairmakers's tools, and with much previously unpublished information which could only be known by a Windsor chairmaker.