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Searching `Peter Cook Becky Northey tree furniture` gets you some nice pictures of their work, as they don't just 'do chair' -- though I suspect plenty of people have been doing this in various forms for centuries.
I've seen this couple discussed on HN before, although my searching abilities are failing me, I just found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051965 which is the same couple, but with 3 points and 1 comment, isn't likely to be the discussion I remember. There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9344837 4 points 11 years ago, although the link is dead.
When I type in "Chair grow" I get nada, but "Chairs grow" provides a bunch of results. You'd think Chair and Chairs would be very close together in a search engine.
This field is called Tree Shaping[1] and while it has been tried throughout history, I think there's still a lot of cool stuff that has never been tried. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping
Carpentry is dead
relatively durable
relatively fast growing and amenable to bending and grafting
willow?
anybody ID those trees?
What species of tree is good for this? relatively durable relatively fast growing and amenable to bending and grafting willow? anybody ID those trees?
I've seen this couple discussed on HN before, although my searching abilities are failing me, I just found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051965 which is the same couple, but with 3 points and 1 comment, isn't likely to be the discussion I remember. There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9344837 4 points 11 years ago, although the link is dead.
It's quite weird. When I type in "Chair grow" I get nada, but "Chairs grow" provides a bunch of results. You'd think Chair and Chairs would be very close together in a search engine.