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Online Videos on Windsor
Chairmaking
YouTube offers videos on Windsor chairmaking, tool sharpening etc.
We have listed a couple we found useful . Please feel free to suggest more
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Curtis
Buchanan videos on making a comb-back Windsor (YouTube)
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Peter
Galbert chairmaking and woodworking techniques
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Elia Bizzarri builds a Windsor rocker on Woodwright's Shop.
Episode
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Episode
2
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Books-Chairs/Chairmaking
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American Painted Furniture
Cynthia V. A. Schaffner & Susan Klein, 1997, Random House, 223 pages.
Display of clocks, Windsor chairs, gilded looking glasses, pier tables,
and klismos chairs by region. Illustrated with more than three hundred
photographs. Special sections explain painting and gilding techniques, and
there is an appendix with a source directory and a glossary of terms.
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American Windsor Chairs
Nancy Goyne Evans, 1996, Hudson Hill Press, 744 pages. Comprehensive
history of windsor chairs with extensive photographs.
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American Windsor Furniture: Specialized
Forms
Nancy Goyne Evans,1998, Hudson Hill Press, 240 pages. A continuation
of the in-depth study of windsor style, including specialty items, rockers,
settees and more.
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The Art of Chair-Making
Kerry Pierce, 1998, Sterling Publishing, 144 pages. Directions
for Windsor, post & rung & ladderback.
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The Book of American Windsor
Furniture
John Kassay, 1998, UofMA Press, 208 pages. A concise history
of Windsor furniture styles with numerous black & white photos.
Measured drawings of over 30 Windsor projects makes this a real reference
for chairmakers.
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The Chairmaker's Workshop: Handcrafting Windsor & Post &
Rung Chairs
Drew Langsner, 1997, Lark Press, 352 pages. Directions & patterns
for post & rung & Windsor chairs. Lots of detail on processes
and making the necessary tools. Available with an enlarged pattern set for
a sack-back, continuous arm, sack-back settee, bow-back, comb-back.
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Country Chair Making
Jack Hill, 1993, Sterling Publishing, 152 pages Directions for stools,
ladderbacks, and Windsor chairs with some history.
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The English Regional Chair
Bernard D. Cotton, Antique Collector's Club, 2001, 512 pages.
Detailed study of the work of hundreds of craftsmen throughout the
country. The evolution of known types and makes. A fascinating account of
the development of hundreds of chair types from all over England, and the
lives of the craftsmen who produced them: 'Windsor', 'ladder back' and 'spindle
back'.
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English Windsor Chair
Thomas Crispin, May 1992, 208 pages International Publ. Co. Inc.
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English Windsor Chairs: Shire Album 70, Vol.
70
Ivan Sparkes, Paperback, 32pp, July 2001
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Make a Windsor Chair with Michael Dunbar
Michael Dunbar, Taunton Press, 1984, 166 pages .
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Measured Drawings of 18th Century American
Furniture
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Traditional Furniture Projects
Taunton Press, 1991, 127 pages. Includes profiles of several New England
Windsor chair makers.
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Traditional Windsor Chair Making with Jim
Rendi
Jim Rendi with Douglas Congdon-Martin, Schiffer Press, 1993, 112
pages. A step by step guide to building a comb back windsor chair from log
to completion.
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Welsh Stick Chairs: A Workshop Guide to the Windsor
Chair
John Brown,1996 Linden Press, 94 pages. Traditional rustic
Windsors.
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The Windsor Chair: An Illustrated
Celebration
Michael Harding-Hill , Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Antique
Collectors Club; (September 2003)
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The Windsor Chair
T.H. Ormsbee, Deerfield Books, 1962 (out of
print)
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The Windsor Chair: An Illustrated
Handbook
Wallace Nutting, 2001, Dover Publications,192 pages. Profusely
illustrated bookidentifies over 100 different types of Windsor chairs
and other furniture. Full-page photos of chairs and furniture. Text describes
condition, merit, rarity, date of manufacture, and ownership.
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Windsor-chair Making in America: From Craft Shop to
Consumer
Nancy Goyne Evans (Hardcover - January 2006), 528 pages, University
Press of New England
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Windsor Chairmaking
Thomas Moser, 1982, Sterling Press, 192 Pages. Technique and
plans. (out of print)
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Windsor Chairmaking [Hardcover]
James Mursell, Crowood Press, 2010 - 176 pages The 260-year-old history
of Windsor chairs, comparing designs from England and America. Tools, techniques,
selection of materials and the sensitive shaping of the components that lead
to a fine chair are covered. Detailed plans and measurements for four chairs
(two English, two American) are provided with guidance and techniques on
how to design a chair from scratch.
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A Windsor Handbook: Compromising Illustrations & Descriptions
of Windsor Furniture of All Periods
Wallace Nutting, Tuttle Press, 1984 (out of
print)
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The Windsor Style in America, Volumes I &
II
Charles Santore, Courage Books,1997, 501 pages. Elaborately
illustrated history of windsor chairs and chairmakers with drawings
& photos. Discusses chairmakers & markings
as well.
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The Woodwright's Apprentice: 20 Favorite Projects from the
Woodwright Shop
Roy Underhill, Uof NC Press, 1996, 208 pages. Includes directions
for a revolving Windsor chair.
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