Seat Weaving
Basket Maker’s Catalog sells a variety of seating materials including shaker tape, binder cane, and danish chord. They also have good online instructions and a shaker tape yardage calculator.
Shaker Workshops has some good shaker tape colors not available from Basket Maker’s Catalog.
Silver River Center for Chair Caning in Ashville, NC teach excellent in person and online classes on most seating materials.
Peter Follansbee has a good video on weaving a hickory bark seat.
Lodging near Charlotte, VT
Anywhere in Charlotte, Shelburne, or South Burlington will be a very short drive to the shop.
Mt. Philo State Park has camping starting at $20/night.. It is a beautiful place and has 7 tent sites, and 3 lean-to sites. It is a five minute drive from the shop.
North Beach Campground is right on the lake in Burlington and has camping (tents to RVs), starting at $37/ night.
There is an Airbnb a few houses down the road from the shop where many students have stayed. If you say you are taking a chairmaking class they will give you a 10% discount. Here are links to the rooms:
Camp in the field behind the shop! May - October there are tent spots available for anyone who wants to camp. We have an outhouse with a composting toilet, rain collection for washing dishes, and a spot to hang solar shower bags. We also provide drinking water, and have some extra coolers for you to use. Price is TBD but it will be low, something like $25 per night.
Chairmaking Stuff
Shaving horse plans from Tim Manney.
Spoon mule plans from Dawson Moore.
Pay-what-you-can Chair makers workbench plans, free how to videos, and chairs plans from Curtis Buchanan.
Boggs chair manuals, and pay-what-you-can Boggs Side Chair Plans from Jeff Lefkowitz
White Pine seat blanks for Windsor chairs from Shawn Murphy.
Green oak and maple blanks (and tons of other stuff) from Elia Bizzarri.