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Captain's Chair (furniture)
A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-mortise and tenon, tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to standard chairs (whose back legs and back uprights are continuous). The seats of Windsor chairs were often carved into a shallow dish or saddle shape for comfort. Traditionally, the legs and uprights were usually turned on a pole lathe. The back and sometimes the arm pieces (if arms are present) are formed from Steam bending, steam bent pieces of wood. History It is not clear when the first Windsor Chairs were made.Hill. Country Chair Making. p. 11 It is known that, as early as the 16th century, wheelwrights started Coping (joinery), coping out Spindle (furniture), chair spindles in the same way they made wheel spokes.Frankel. Encyclopedia of Country Furniture. p. 164 The design was probably a development of West Country, Wales, Welsh and Ireland, Irish 'stick-back' chairs, but the evidence on origin is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor Chairmaking Tools
Windsor may refer to: Places Australia *Windsor, New South Wales ** Municipality of Windsor, a former local government area *Windsor, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland **Shire of Windsor, a former local government authority around Windsor, Queensland ** Town of Windsor, a former local government authority around Windsor, Queensland *Windsor, South Australia, a small town in the northern Adelaide Plains * Windsor Gardens, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide *Windsor, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne Canada *Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador *Windsor, Nova Scotia *Windsor, Ontario *Windsor, Quebec New Zealand *Windsor, New Zealand, a township in North Otago United Kingdom *Windsor, Berkshire, a town near London **Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire **Windsor Great Park **Windsor (UK Parliament constituency), the constituency centred on this town **Old Windsor, a village near Windsor * Windsor, Belfast, a suburb *Windsor, Cornwall, a hamlet * Windsor, Linco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
