by Hugh Conway Morris | Dec 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Timber Hewing and Ecology Course in Dragon Wood Participants are invited to join us on a two-day course in the ancient woodland of Dragon Wood in western Gloucestershire, for a two-day course on traditional timber hewing, supplemented with presentations on woodland...
by Hugh Conway Morris | Aug 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Committee for Folk Architecture, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Veszprém We are very much looking forward to the forthcoming international conference “From Traditions to the Future” (“A Hagyományoktól a Jövőig”), which will take place in the...
by Hugh Conway Morris | Nov 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Experimental Cob Wall As part of our research programme, we are currently constructing a new kind of cob wall – to provide a new south-west wall to our workshop. But what’s experimental about it? Watch this space – but we’re very...
by Hugh Conway Morris | Oct 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Talk on Lime Burning at the SPAB Autumn Repair Course Further to our work last summer, burning local grey chalk in a field kiln at the SPAB’s Old House Project and Working Party in Boxley, Kent, we were delighted to be invited back to present our findings to...
by Hugh Conway Morris | Aug 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Douglas Fir We’ve been commissioned to build some rather lovely bookshelves, using Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in rather chunky sections. The workshop is filled with their aromatic aroma…Read more about our furniture projects here. ←...
by admin | Aug 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Smoke blackened timbers It’s always nice to explore a new historic roof – and particularly when we can discover such hidden gems as the back of an old wattle-and-daub wall! Not to mention the smoke blackening of rafter bellies – evidence of a...
