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LAP Open Wire, Nov. 16, 2024

date: 2024-11-16, from: Lost Arg Press blog

Update: Comments are now closed. Join us again on Dec. 14. If you have a woodworking question, post it in the comments below. Chris and I are holding Open Wire today between now and 5 p.m. Eastern and will do out best to answer everyone (in between finishing a chair and a tool chest –…


https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/11/16/lap-open-wire-nov-16-2024/


New to Maiwa! Mumbai Block Printed Bedding — The Best of Artisan Cloth

date: 2024-11-15, updated: 2024-11-15, from: Maiwa blog (weaving and textiles)


https://maiwahandprints.blogspot.com/2024/11/new-to-maiwa-mumbai-block-printed.html


Waiting for the Monsoon — A Lecture & Film by Charllotte Kwon

date: 2024-11-13, updated: 2024-11-13, from: Maiwa blog (weaving and textiles)


https://maiwahandprints.blogspot.com/2024/11/waiting-for-monsoon-lecture-film-by.html


Building Chests – from “Woodworking in Estonia”

date: 2024-11-12, from: Lost Arg Press blog

The following is excerpted from “Woodworking in Estonia.” The author, Ants Viires, devoted his life to recording the hand-tool folkways of his country without a shred of romanticism. Viires combined personal interviews and direct observation of work habits with archaeological evidence and a thorough scouring of the literature in his country and surrounding nations. If all…


https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/11/12/building-chests-from-woodworking-in-estonia/


Progress on our New Storefront & Offices

date: 2024-11-10, from: Lost Arg Press blog

After more than a year of struggling to get our inventory under control, we did a little rearranging of things in our warehouse and figured out that we have enough open floor space to build our storefront, editorial offices and a new tool assembly area. We were shocked that our plan worked. For the last…


https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/11/10/progress-on-our-new-storefront-offices/


Investigating Old Stick Chairs

date: 2024-11-10, from: Lost Arg Press blog

I love books, photos and drawings, but if you want to quickly learn a lot about making and designing chairs, there is one path: Study the suckers in person every chance you get. Up close and slowly. Last week, Welsh chairmaker Chris Williams arranged for me and some friends to study four old stick chairs…


https://blog.lostartpress.com/2024/11/10/investigating-old-stick-chairs/