Rustic Carpentry
About Rustic Carpentry
A 21st century village carpenter, working wood in all ways using the traditional skills of a bygone day.
Old skills, local timber, made for today
Programmes like the BBC's Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm have rekindled interest in countryside skills. Rustic Carpentry brings those skills back to life, and puts them to work for today's homes, gardens, schools and communities.
Ian describes himself as a modern-day green woodworker and rustic carpenter. His aim is to combine the traditional skills and old ways with the needs of a modern business. It isn't old against new, but the best of both.
Rustic Carpentry was born from a wish to leave a pressured working life behind and make a living locally, through traditional skills. These are skills that were once passed from master to apprentice over generations and are now at risk of being lost. Ian is determined that they won't be.
“I get no greater pleasure than picking up an old carpentry tool and beginning that age-old process of learning my craft.”
A genuinely local, genuinely green business
Using timber from local, sustainably managed woodlands is central to how Ian works. Over the last decade he has been planting little acorns all over the Charnwood area.
The National Forest
The National Forest is one of Britain's boldest environmental projects: a new forest for the nation across 200 square miles of Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire.
More than 7.8 million trees have been planted, trebling woodland cover and transforming the landscape. The woodland will eventually cover around a third of the Forest area, linking the ancient forests of Charnwood and Needwood.
Rustic Carpentry is proud to work within it, and every piece we make supports the woods it comes from.
Want to know more about how we work?
Ian is always happy to talk timber, techniques and your project.