Perlins Community Project

Making Sweet chestnut Shingles

Since we moved to our new site we have been focusing some of our activities on being outside, learning and embracing nature and certainly benefiting from this. Green woodwork is an activity that initially began as a way to carry on making things from wood, an activity that has long been a popular choice for Perlins project members. However, with no power we had to learn about green woodwork and it has been a fascinating journey. Everyone who has done green woodwork over the last few years has commented on the calming, enjoyable and creative nature of this style of woodwork.

Although we had decided to clad the studio with waney edge cladding we had left a small end section free for us to experiment with making our own Sweet Chestnut shingles. Thankfully we knew that Phil from a local Sweet chestnut coppice woodland would be able to supply the billets (12 inch long  round logs). He was also happy to show us how to make shingles, and so for a very enjoyable winter and spring - that’s what we did.

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