Toronto Makes features over 50 of the city’s most exciting creative entrepreneurs sharing the stories behind the crafts they’ve dedicated their lives to. This beautifully photographed and designed volume celebrates bakers and brewers, fashion and jewellery designers, furniture makers and ceramicists, and many more—an eclectic group of incredibly talented people who make Toronto a little more special. Toronto Makes pairs engaging profiles by Toronto writer Randi Bergman artful photos of the peo...
Handmade Furniture: 21 Classic Woodworking Projects to Build for Your Home
by ,Rafael Nathan
"For a woodworker, there's nothing more satisfying than building a project that adds beauty and function to a busy home: the stunning cutting board used every night in the kitchen, the elegant and helpful end-table next to the bed, or the handsome coffee table that proudly serves in the living room. Ultimately, it's the handmade pieces of furniture that become the family heirlooms for generations to come. With Handmade Furniture by Raf Nathan, a professional cabinetmaker and the editor of Austra...
Making With Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World provides a snapshot of the practices used by contemporary designers, researchers, and artists who are creating objects, spaces, and experiences imbued with data. Creators of physical representations of data draw from a range of domains and traditions, and represent a fascinating, inspiring, and revealing cross-section of contemporary maker and data culture. To highlight the diversity of approaches, this book features a collectio...
Masterful instructions from Popular Science for dozens of projects, including a dining table, a drop-lid writing desk, a bedroom dresser, and a cradle. Drawings, scaled plans and exploded views cover tools, materials, techniques, more.
A Guide to Making Wooden Furniture and Furnishings for the Kitchen
by Anon
Re-Upholstering Old Chairs, Stools and Settees - Step by Step Instructions to Refreshing Tired Upholstery
by C. Howes
Repairing and Restoring Antique Furniture
by John Rodd and V.J. Taylor
First published in 1954 as "The Repair and Restoration of Antique Furniture", this work has been revised, expanded and reillustrated by V.J. Taylor, and is aimed at woodworkers, owners of traditionally crafted furniture, and antiques enthusiasts. It explains to the layman the professionals' techniques for repairing damaged furniture and restoring it authentically to prime condition. It describes systematically the six basic steps - dismantling, cleaning joints, restoring components, gluing up, l...
Provides guidance and information for upholstering home furnishings, including information on tools of the trade; woodworking techniques; surface finishes; and different materials, fabrics, and trimmings.
Our Workshop & The Lathe And How To Use It 1866 - 1867
by Temple Thorold
Every board has edges, faces and end grain. So every workbench should be able to easily work the edges, faces and ends of boards. But most benches built during the last 100 years will fail you on at least one of these tasks. This book dives deep into the historical records of the 18th and 19th centuries and breathes new life into traditional designs that have lain dormant for decades and were utterly fantastic to use. These old-school benches are simpler than modern benches, easier to build and...
Learn the simplicity of using hand tools, while you build! Traditional woodworking using hand tools can offer a more satisfying relationship with the wood and the creative woodworking process. It's quieter, cleaner and maybe even a little spiritual. It's no surprise that many "plugged-in" woodworkers are returning to the roots of this treasured skill. Where some hand-tool books focus solely on the use of hand tools, Made By Hand takes you right to the bench and shows you how to start building f...
Restore any seen-better-days piece of furniture to its former glory using these techniques and tricks of the trade. Go through this guide from start to finish for the definitive restoration workshop course, or dip into various chapters to locate specific information, like how to apply an oil stain, repair veneer, and remove dents in wood. Refurbish the furniture described, then try items of your own choosing. Return a country chair, bedside cabinet, coffee table, side table, dinner table, drop-l...
You may have mastered Arduino and 3D printing, but what will you make when the power goes out? This book, featuring projects drawn from previous issues of Make: and Craft:, features projects you can build with little or no technology. Whether it's making your own cider or starting a fire with a bow drill, the projects in this book will let you keep making even when you're away from civilization. Whether you're on a camping trip or fortifying the last human settlement against hordes of zombies, y...
This book includes professional techniques to bring your furniture back to life. It is an essential guide to basic and advanced restoration techniques for antique tables. It features step-by-step instructions for everyday restoration tasks, including repairing a damaged table leg, mending the base and frame, and dismantling and reassembling tables. It explains how tables from different periods are made, and how to take them apart and put them back together. It includes expert advice on buying, u...
Cabinet Making For Amateurs - A Practical Handbook On The Making Of Various Articles Of Furniture
by John, P. Arkwright