Treen and Other Turned Woodware for Collectors.
Jane Toller, 1975
This is one of the substantial books about treenware written by
a British antiques dealer. She was collecting treenware before
and after world war 2 and had a shop in London where much of it
was displayed. She came across a number of pieces and collections
which are now in museums.
In reality, this is a book that lists and describes all the kinds
of items she considers treen. Her difinition of treen is
any wood object to small to be considered furniture. That
includes a lot of items, many of which facilitated products and
procedures we no longer know about.
For example, I learned that corn meal has to be tightly packed
in order for it to keep. Thus there are treenware items into
which corn meal was tightly packed for later use.
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Lignum
Vitae:
Also known as Tree of Life, this is the most dense wood in the
world. It is filled with resins and is still used estensively.
At the bottom of the center column on this page is a listing of
all the current auctions for Ligum vitae on Ebay.
Modern Treenware
Modern wood carvers have a much greater range of woods to choose
from, although the dense, fine grained woods they need are expensive.
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