Don Weber's Slides: Rare Images of Chairmaking History

Lost Art Press published a blog post featuring a carousel of slides from Don Weber, a woodworker known for his extensive collection of rare books on the craft. The slides were used during a talk Weber gave with Michael Dunbar and possibly Jennie Alexander at a chair symposium at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. Many of the images were sourced from books that were lost in a 2010 flood that inundated Weber's shop with four-and-a-half feet of water, mud, and oil. The post includes captions from Weber and the editors, showcasing historical depictions of chairmaking and woodworking from various sources, including a closeup of 'Men Shoveling Chairs' attributed to the Circle of Rogier van der Weyden, a 14th-century turned chair from the Maastricht Book of Hours, a depiction of Joseph the carpenter from the Merode Altarpiece, Cistercian monks riving wood from a 12th-century manuscript, a monk turning rosary beads from the Hausbuch der Mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung, turned table elements from a painting by Francisco de Zurbarán, and various illustrations from the Ständebuch (1568) by Jost Amman and Hans Sachs, as well as Het Menselyk Bedryf (1694) by Jan and Caspar Luyken. The post is part of a series and was written by Kara Gebhart Uhl.