A practical guide to green woodwork and the coppice crafts, showing how to use traditional tools and techniques to make traditional products from small round wood, and help in the conservation of the native woodland besides.

The content includes:

Woodmanship and Coppicing Tools Devices

Buying, measuring and cutting

Riving woodproducts for gardens

FencingWood for thatching Tent pegs

Withes Walking sticks

Besom brooms

Gate Hurdles

Wattle hurdles

The market place

Raymond Tabor has worked for twenty years in a woodland nature reserve, producing and selling traditional products, leads courses in woodland crafts and management, and has written regularly on crafts, tools and woodland conservation, including a booklet on coppicing. This is the ultimate guide for any nature enthusiasts interested in woodland crafts.