A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to other styles of chairs whose back legs and
A sack-back Windsor armchair by Wallace Nutting
A "stick" constructed stool, discovered as part of the Carnarvon Excavations of Upper Egypt. Believed to come from the Middle Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt.
A judge sitting on a chair in the Laws of Hywel Dda, a 13th century manuscript (MS. Peniarth 28). This is the earliest known depiction of the Welsh 'stick-back' chair. The design of the Windsor chair was possibly a development of this.
Painting of Sir Roger and Lady Bradshaigh by Edward Haytley (active 1740–1764), with what is thought to be one of the earliest depictions of a Windsor chair.
A mortise and tenon is a joint that connects two pieces of wood or other material. Woodworkers around the world have used it for thousands of years to join pieces of wood, mainly when the adjoining pi
Windsor chair
…A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to other styles of chairs whose back legs and back uprights are continuous. The seats of Windsor chairs are…
Tusked-through tenons used on a French granary
Egyptian stool with through tenons, c. 1991–1450 BC
Experimental archaeology; cutting a mortise with a cannonbone chisel
A through mortise is used in this wooden hinge.