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Milk Paint Recipe

Posted on January 23, 2013 by stevetomlin

I’m a big fan of painted woodenware and have been experimenting for a while now with different recipes of homemade paint. The egg based tempera I used on my spindleback chair was lovely but takes several weeks to dry properly … Continue reading →

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Blue spindleback dining chair

Posted on January 25, 2012 by stevetomlin

In between everything else I’m spending quite a bit of time at the moment on designing a series of chairs. I’ve been making green wood chairs since I did a course with Mike Abbott in Herefordshire in 2003. I did … Continue reading →

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