Most of what’s on this page came from customers telling me what they needed. Pieces that keep scissors, thread, buttons, and a project in progress together and close at hand, instead of scattered across a table. A few of them have recessed lids, made so you can mount a finished piece of needlework right into the cover.

Every piece starts as a log, bought through local woodsmen here in Maine and milled right on my property. Bands of quartersawn maple, birch, or ash, tops and bottoms of quartersawn Eastern white pine. The swallowtail joints are cut one at a time by hand and fastened with copper tacks made on original 19th-century machines.

Painted pieces come in red, pumpkin, yellow, green, blue, grey, black, or sea green, each sealed with two coats of pure tung oil. Natural pieces are dyed to an antiqued tone and sealed with five coats. The copper tacks are darkened for an aged look, and following tradition, the bottom of each painted piece is left unpainted, then dyed and oiled to an aged patina.