Heirlooms Inc.
The Shaker Style
Heirlooms Inc.
Roanoke, TX 76262
ph: 817-915-6336
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"If it is not useful or necessary, free yourself from imagining that you need to make it.
"If it is useful and necessary, free yourself from imagining that you need to enhance it by adding what is not an integral part of its usefulness or necessity.
"And finally: If it is both useful and necessary and you can recognize and eliminate what is not essential, then go ahead and make it as beautifully as you can."
Shaker Quotation
OVAL BOXES, CARRIERS AND
TRAYS
INDIVIDUALLY HANDCRAFTED IN
THE SHAKER STYLE
Nine-Box Stack of Painted Boxes easily nest inside each other.
Nine-Box Stack in natural Quartersawn Cherry
Handle and Finger Detail on Swing-Handle Carrier.
Fixed-Handle Carriers in Curly Maple and a Fixed-Handle Carrier in Cherry with a Hinged-lid in Birdseye Maple.
Heirlooms Inc.
Welcome to Heirlooms - The Shaker Style, my Shaker location for hand-crafted Shaker Oval Boxes, Carriers and Trays.
After 40 years of building colonial reproduction furniture, I made the decison to pursue my long-time interest in Shaker craftsmanship. For many years I had admired and respected the graceful beauty and superb craftsmanship existing in all their work. I began with stools, tables and other small wooden items to become familiar with the style then began making clocks and, finally, the best known symbol of shaker history, the oval box. I now also make carriers and other containers.
For five consecutive years I have been recognized, by Early American Life Magazine, as one of the top traditional craftsmen in American. This selection process occurs annually and is based on the decision of a panel of experts consisting of historians, museum curators, scholars, antiques dealers and others. In each August issue the magazine presents the Directory of Traditional American Crafts.
