Childs Windsor High Dining Chair in Yew and Elm

A very attractive and useful chair enabling children to get use to eating at the table made with an Elm seat with all the other parts in Yew.

The seat is hand carved from a 1-inch piece of solid Elm, shaped for comfort with a decretive scribed line round the edge of the seat.

Yew is not commonly used in Windsor chairs, but by including some Yew it makes a higher quality Windsor chair.

Thinnings’- trimmed of Yew trees, are used in making all the round parts of this child’s chair.

The bow arm is steam bent, and then hand carved into shape, and then supported by six double elliptical spindles the elliptical swells giving the upper part of this chair a softer feel.

The four legs have a pattern of one ring, a cotton reel and a finer ring at the lower end of the leg, the two short stretchers have pattern of a ball and tapered swell, joining into the crinoline stretcher, then fitted into the back legs.

All patterned turned parts are made on a Bobbin-Bow Lathe.

Two coats of finishing oil and two applications of high quality wax polish achieve the very deep lustre finish.

Every chair comes with a photographic album showing how a Windsor chair is made.