Upholstery

Determined effort to get the job done!!!!

Rhode Island Progress

 From Norman's book, through the chaos

to four mates waiting to be clothed.

The beginning.

Just the cushion and the back embroidery to do.

Still need to improve the upholstery to match the quality of the embroidery piece done by Gek as a nod to

 the embroidery on the  late 16th century chair.

Rhode Island Easy Chair

This is the  chair pictured in Norman's book. The chair was made in c. 1758 and is currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  New York, USA

Use jig to form the front legs.

After fretting the back legs using scaled templates, us jig to machine the slots form cross member joints.

Similar techniques used as in the Boston chair to create the frame.

Big difference, of course, this beauty needs to be upholstered.  First attempt, after much humming and awing.

The second crack at it. Better but with room for much improvement. Well, at least the chair looks 'in scale'.  Did wonder as it was being put together.  Looked a bit on the big side, it did.