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Building a Woodland Yurt


From Woodland to Yurt

Our yurts are made using top quality timber selected from local woodlands

  • These woods are managed primarily for nature conservation.
  • We aim to make our yurts as environmentally sustainable as possible.
  • We use prime quality kiln-dried oak from Southern England for our tonos.
  • Quality takes time. After the timber is cut we season it for months until it reaches just the right water content for steam bending. Once bent it is seasoned for a further three months. Typically from cutting the wood to finished yurt takes over a year.
    Coppice poles Straight ash ready for milling
    Stripping coppice poles Sawing ash on the Woodmizer sawmill
    Bending ash poles for a Kyrgyz yurt Ash wall poles waiting to be steam-bent
    Planing the sawn timber Sawing tunduk fellies in the workshop
    Steaming wall poles Wall poles seasoning in the workshop
    View of our new workshop Building a small tono
    Tying the khana Fitting the cover
    Fitting the cover (white liner in background. Green cover in foreground) Sewing the cover

     

     

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    "I'm having a very special time in it. It's a fantastic piece of Joinery"
    M.R. (Cumbria, 1998)
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