How to Bamboo: Simple Instructions and Projects

By: Schiffer Publishing Ltd

Bamboo, bemoaned by many as a runaway weed, is treasured in many cultures around the world for its strength, durability, and versatility. This book illustrates ways in which any person capable of using a saw, rasp, screwdriver, and chisel can set about to create beautiful furnishings and useful accessories for the home. Patience, practice, and the application of sharp tools, hot glue, and accurate measurements, promise to enable you to make your own creations. Illustrations and basic instructions for bamboo tables, chairs and seats, bedroom furniture, hall racks and stands, cabinets and bookcases, window blinds, and many other articles are provided, along with a thorough primer on the tools and techniques for working this fast-growing grass. Many designs are inspired by Asian models, very popular in today's decor.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764324160
• ISBN13: 9780764324161
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A reprint from 1853 - I was VERY unimpressed

This is a reprint of "Bamboo Work" edited by Paul N. Hasluck, published in 1853. If that sounds interesting, this is the book for you! I found nothing in the book that justified reading it, much less buying it. Of course, I purchased it expecting to learn how to work with and build with bamboo. That would be possible if I wanted to set my modern tools aside, and reenact life more than 170 years ago.