It’s been a long time since the last post, busy busy busy, and yes New Years and Christmas! Here is the latest oak driftwood bed for a local couple Alma and John. They have just collected it and are thrilled with it.
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Storytellers Bench for Outdoor School Playground
Here are some photos of a Storytellers Bench we made for Croft Church of England Primary School. It is one of the biggest we have made which is the main reason why it never got a photograph here.
Large Elm Dining Room Table
We are pleased to be sending this ginormous elm dining room table to it’s home in Ireland. We now have room in our showroom to make more furniture…Keep it rolling…
Driftwood Storytelling Chair for Feature Film
We’ve just finished building this solid driftwood chair for a film being made in Malta about Sinbad the Sailor.
The look is ‘fresh from the sea’, retaining all the character and charm of the driftwood that was collected from the very shores where these pictures were taken.
Driftwood is such a wonderful resource to build with, as it involves lots of sailing on my part to hunt it out …!
Outdoor Slate and Oak Dining Table Set
Here’s the latest garden furniture set we built in time for a 2 year old’s birthday party, where it was greatly enjoyed by young and old. A new feature to this set are the wooden stools for each end of the table, which were specially commissioned to complement the long benches,with optional detachable slate seats.
A version of this table can also be made with a hole in the centre for a parasol – essential in the glorious weather we’re enjoying at the moment!
Wooden Wedding Arch for Lucy and Roland
Our dear friends Lucy and Roland just got married at their home in the south of France, and I had the privilege of making their wooden wedding arch for them to walk through as newly married man and wife. It was a beautiful ceremony with all their family and friends present to celebrate with them, and the sun shined down after many days of unexpected rain!
This is a new style of wedding arch to add to my portfolio, as each one I make is unique, using materials available locally. Lucy and Roland had just finished laying a wooden floor in what was to become the giant wedding reception room, and there was a big pile of douglas fir off cuts left over, which proved to be perfect for making lots of individual shapes – hearts, flowers and stars – which I then wove together to form the arch. Douglas fir is great because it has an attractive peachy colour and will last a long time outside. The arch will remain in Lucy and Roland’s garden long after their wedding day, where they plan to grow beautiful jasmine plants up each side.
Congratulations Mr and Mrs Mirouze!
New Sylvantutch Website Launched!!!
We have finally just launched the new Sylvantutch web-site. Some minor bugs going backwards and forwards, but we are finally going forward again!! Roll on, scroll down, logout….
Cadair Idris Storytelling Chair
We took this chair up Cadair.
One inspired evening a group of us decided it would be a good idea to take a giant storytelling chair up Cadair Idris.
The inspiration came after hearing about a grand piano being taken up Ben Nevis and a pool table up one of the peaks in the Brecon Beacons. We thought that as all the materials used in the making of the chair were both biodegradable and came from the surrounding foothills and the name Cader Idris means chair of Idris it would be an appropriate gift to the mountain. Continue reading
Inspiration
Every now and again we get some lovely message from somebody who we’ve inspired. Here is one from Chris a photographer who came and did our course last year and has started making rustic furniture. Checkout the pictures below.
“Hey, I don’t suppose you will remember me, I came on a rustic furniture course about this time last year, my job was a photographer and I came hoping to learn a few tricks on how to make your funky stuff. Well I though I would drop you a quick e-mail just to say thanks you and SUCCESS. Soon after I returned home I was told about a Permaculture site in Burnley Lancashire near where I live called Offshoots (www.offshoots.org.uk) This place is all about sustainable and eco projects, I showed the manager a chair I had made with you. I couldn’t believe my luck when he invited me to start making furniture onsite inside a yurt (which are also made there) Prince Charles came to see us and then we got offered a grant to run courses in a project known as Eco Minds. I have now been trained up to use a chain saw mill and we process trees that have been felled by local authorities and which would normally just be buried in a hole in the ground. recently I have been working on a 150 year chestnut tree which has stunning grain and spolting throughout the wood. I am also now learning the art of chain saw carving and bodging using a pole lathe
I have attached a couple of shots of funky stuff I have made.
Anyway hope you like my story and furniture, Hope all is well with you.
Many thanks
Chris”
Do you also make crafts with a conscience?
After spending ten years developing an exciting and successful online rustic furniture business, we are looking to expand our range and are offering other furniture makers and crafts people a successful internet platform from which to sell their wares. It will be important that you have the same eco-idealogical principals as us and that your work is of a high calibre.
If this sounds like you, then send us an email with some pictures and a brief description of your work and we’ll get back to you soon. Email: sylvantutch@googlemail.com