Shaker Box and Shaker Scandal (Book and Collectible)
Item Number: 197
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Enjoy a beautifully hand-crafted, cherry wood Shaker box, faithfully reproduced by the artisans of Shaker Workshops (12 1/8'' x 8 1/2'' x 5'' high). Learn more about the Utopian visionaries behind the originals in a true story of Shaker scandal: The Great Divorce (signed by the author, in hardcover or paperback).
Special Instructions
About “Shaker Oval Box No. 3,” from Shaker Workshops:
We make our Shaker oval boxes on reproductions of the original forms and templates used at the Mt. Lebanon, New York Shaker community during the mid-19th century. Like the Shakers, we produce our oval boxes in eleven different sizes and we use the original Shaker numbering system (No. 11 being the smallest box and No. 1 being the largest box). And, like the Shakers’, our oval boxes feature uniformly slender sides, symmetrical joints, and neat, tight-fitting lids.
We handcraft them of select Pennsylvania cherry, secured by copper tacks. Tops and bottoms are fastened with wooden pegs. We hand rub them with several coats of oil finish and buff them until they "glow." The insides are unfinished. The Shakers used oval boxes for sewing and quilting notions and for kitchen dry goods. Today, their uses are unlimited.
About “The Great Divorce” by Ilyon Woo
“The Great Divorce is a superb book–masterfully written, deeply suspenseful, and filled with fascinating facts and insights. American history would be everyone’s favorite subject if more historians wrote like this.”
—Debby Applegate, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for The Most Famous Man in America