Penland School of Craft, 2016 spring concentration
An eight week deep dive into timber framing in which we built Bickford-style saw horses, studied descriptive geometry, and constructed a timber framed building for the Penland campus to house the historic travelog. The frame incorporated curved logs left in the round, cut the previous spring from the Penland forest. The travelog was a model T ford with a log cabin built onto the back, constructed during the depression in Penland’s early days to represent and sell local Appalachian crafts at the Chicago World Fair.
