Saint Maud’s – a community workshop in northern Wisconsin – just started a 38-week course for 4-H kids to build the armchair in “Build a Chair from Bulls%$t.” Check out the first video here. They’ll be posting videos on Instagram of the kids as they build their chairs. We’re going to follow along. You can, too. Here’s…
Read moreI am particularly excited to announce that we will publish a book about the Jimmy Possum chair tradition by Dr. Mike Epworth, who has spent decades studying, researching and building these remarkable Australian folk chairs. The book’s working title is “Wild Line: The Past and Future of the Jimmy Possum Chairmaking Tradition.” We don’t have…
Read moreThis low-slung Irish armchair is the first chair I’ve finished in soot, dirt and oil – a finish that gives the chair a deep brown-black-red color that you find on old stick chairs. The chair is made entirely of elm (both red elm and American elm) and is one of the most comfortable chairs I make….
Read moreIt took two years and six months, but we have finally paid off the $267,000 loan we took out to purchase the Anthe Building – the Lost Art Press headquarters and fulfillment center. This post is not intended as a gloat. Instead, it is an acknowledgment that for the last 30 months we have been…
Read moreI’ve long been interested in fish glues since reading about them in A.J. Roubo’s “l’Art du menuisier” from the 18th century. After two years of testing fish glue in our shop, we have decided to begin selling it. Fish Stick Glue is a reversible adhesive with a long open time. It is ideal for complex…
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