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The Chair Bodger—new book on a lost tradition

For nearly 300 years the chair bodgers—woodland woodturners—produced chair legs and ’turned stuff’ for the world-famous furniture trade in and around the Chiltern Hills of England.

This is the story of the working and social lives of the Chiltern Chair Bodgers, a hardy group of skilled craftsmen, now mostly forgotten.

Full of previously unseen illustrations. An easy-to-read text for young and older readers alike.

A5 format
52 fully illustrated pages

Price: £9 plus £1 towards postage
Total: £10 posted to UK

The Chair Bodger—Book by Stuart King

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