Robert Somerville
Barn Club: A Tale of Forgotten Elm Trees, Traditional Craft and Community Spirit
Barn Club: A Tale of Forgotten Elm Trees, Traditional Craft and Community Spirit
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Barn Club is a celebration of the elm tree, beautiful buildings, and community spirit. It follows the building of Carley Barn over the course of one year, with volunteers from all walks of life learning this ancient skill of building elm barns by hand. The book includes sixteen pages of color photographs and black and white line drawings of techniques and traditional timber frame barns.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2022
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Barn Club is a celebration of the elm tree, beautiful buildings, and community spirit. It follows the building of Carley Barn over the course of one year, with volunteers from all walks of life joining to learn this ancient skill of building elm barns by hand, at their own quiet pace, and in the company of others, while using timber from the local woods. The tale of the elm tree in its landscape is central to Barn Club, with its natural history, historic importance, and remarkable survival making for a fascinating story. This is a tale of forgotten trees, a local landscape, and an ancient craft.
The book includes sixteen pages of color photographs and black and white line drawings of techniques and traditional timber frame barns feature throughout.
Somerville, a lifelong woodworker, moved to Hertfordshire and discovered an unexpected landscape rich with wildlife and elm trees. Inspired by this, he revived the ancient tradition of hand-raising barns. Barn Club follows the building of Carley Barn over the course of one year, with volunteers from all walks of life joining to learn this ancient skill. The elm tree's natural history, historic importance, and remarkable survival make for a fascinating story. This is a tale of forgotten trees, a local landscape, and an ancient craft.
The book includes sixteen pages of color photographs and black and white line drawings of techniques and traditional timber frame barns feature throughout.
Weight: 410g
Dimension: 143 x 361 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781645021483
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