Mortise and tenon frame of timber house from early America

By Lloyd Kahn on July 18, 2010

Another drawing from Shelter. Looks like the frame for a New England home.The drawing tells you a lot. This was reprinted from The History of Notable American Houses, by Cal Sacks.

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Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
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One Response to Mortise and tenon frame of timber house from early America

  1. Is there anyway i could get a high res version of this drawing?
    My husband and his brother own a small timber frame construction company(5 employees)
    They are making t-shirts and this would make a great design – so long as of course there are no outstanding copyright issues – we would even love to get the book!
    please email me : gretchenechols@gmail.com

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