Description
‘Wee-Wor’ Chair
Ash with Walnut Square Pegs
‘Wee-wor’ is the Shropshire word for wobbly!
No: 39
Collect from gallery £980
Collection only
H 87.5
Seat Dimensions: 45 cm at front. 37.5 cm back width. Front to back depth 37 cm.
W of rockers at front 48 cm
Seat is made from Danish Cord
In 1985 Mike Abbott took what at the time, was the radical step of setting up as a full time green woodworker. His aim was to spread the delights of woodland crafts to enable people to regain a meaningful contact with their woody roots. Partly because of Mike’s books and courses, there has been a significant resurgence of interest in woodland crafts and green woodwork. In 2015 he embarked upon semi-retirement, setting up a condensed version of his woodland workshop in the idyllic garden, which he shares with his wife Tamsin.
‘In Britain we have a nursing chair called a wee-wor, which seems to be peculiar to a Victorian chair-making family called Owen, in Clun, on the English/Welsh border. 20 years ago my wife and I bought one of these chairs as a wedding present for each other, since when it has been used as a model project on my courses. The ‘wee-wor’ name was given to us by a pupil who came on a course and told us that his mother’s family came from Clun and that’s just the name they had for chairs like this’
