Making
Furniture repair
You learn a chair by turning it over. The underside is the honest side.
It lives with woodworking, restoration, and the domestic history of how people actually sat.
Glue, clamps, and the refusal to make a new thing when an old one can work.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside furniture repair reads “the underside of the chair.” It tends to meet woodworking, restoration, and history.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford. Read it beside furniture repair: A case for work that pushes back, written by someone who left a desk for a bench.