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Woodland crafts have a rich history stretching back over the centuries, several varieties of which use coppice-grown material. Starting at the foundation of all of these, the woodland itself, Tom Kemp explores the history of an individual wood and of coppice crafts in general. Using a wonderful selection of images, Tom demonstrates the history and principles of individual crafts, including Woodland Management; Farm Crafts such as hurdles (woven and gate); other Woodland Fencing (post and rail, medieval continuous woven), hedgelaying and hay rakes; Home Crafts such as turnery (spoons, bowls, mazers), chair and stool bodging, spelk baskets, and besoms; Building in Wood, including corduroy roads, wattle and daub, laths, thatching spars and shingles; Wood in Industry, including faggots (home, baking, bricks), charcoal, and tan bark; and Crafts of the Coast, including Frenchmen's pots, inkwell pots, ships' fenders, coracles and curraghs. Tom also takes a look at the future of coppice crafts, including a discussion of both contemporary and continuing crafts.

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Tom Kemp is a woodsman and coppice craftsman based in Cornwall who works a number of woods and turns out a wide range of crafts both old and new, using traditional methods and hand tools. He studies existing examples of older craftwork and first hand accounts by craftsmen to gather as much knowledge of older techniques as possible.

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