Stickers influenced by craft and tools by Mortise & Tenon. High quality scratch-proof, weatherproof, fade-proof sticker. Great for your car bumper, laptops, water bottles, etc.
- The Mortiser: Mortise & Tenon collaborated with woodblock printmaker Stefan Wolf (as seen in Issue Sixteen) to bring you this rugged sticker. It features a carpenter seated on a freshly hewn timber, chopping out a mortise for a new timber frame. The worker is surrounded by the forest, living out the Thoreauvian ideal of going to the woods to live deliberately. We all need more of that in our lives. 3.5" x 6".
- Build For Ever: This sticker is based on a quote from John Ruskin’s The Seven Lamps of Architecture: “Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever.” Note that there is a space between “for” and “ever.” Ruskin was not saying that we should plan to build things on and on eternally (“forever”), but rather that we ought to do all our work with a long-term view. He continued, “Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our fathers did for us.’” The carpenter hewing (Joseph) was illustrated in 1505 by Albrecht Dürer. The angels are picking up the hewn chips. Handy to have, if you can get some.
- Our Tools Shape Us: Die-cut profile of a fore plane with an abbreviated saying from technology scholar John Culkin: “Our Tools Shape Us.” If you’ve read through Issue Ten, you’ll know that this was the theme that wove those articles together. As we use our tools to shape the world, our tools influence us and ultimately shape our perspective on the world. Not sure what we mean? I recommend reading J Klein's article in that issue called “Ready Hands” for further explanation.
- Incite Craft: do at it says! 5" x 3".
- Ripsaw: This is a 4" x 4" die-cut ripsaw from Joseph Park’s 1908 book Educational Wood Working for School and Home.
About Mortise & Tenon:
“Mortise & Tenon exists to cultivate reverence for the dignity of humanity and the natural world through the celebration of handcraft.”
Mortise & Tenon Magazine is an independent, family-run publishing company (read: 3 families) based in rural coastal Maine passionate about hand-tool woodworking. At Woodsmith, we're delighted to stock titles from a publishing company with such fantastic values - and such fantastic books!
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