Trä: A Woodworking Handbook for the Home and Garden (book, Swedish)

In Trä you learn the basic woodworking skills needed to furnish your home with personal and beautiful everyday objects. Based on the book's 20 projects, adapted for those who may not have touched a saw since woodwork class at school, you are guided step by step through the techniques that will make you friends with saws, planes, clamps and chisels.

The book covers practical lumber yard knowledge, that is how to choose good wood and the properties of different species, a review of tools with an emphasis on hand tools, and the methods for measuring, sawing, planing, joining, whittling and finishing. The projects require neither lots of machines nor a workshop and can be made at home in a flat.

The projects include kitchen items such as a spice rack, knife block, cutting board and herb dryer, home items such as a shelf, stool, peg rail, bookends and balcony bench, and for gardeners a plant table, growing benches and trellises for indoors and outdoors. All projects are clearly illustrated and adapted for readers with little experience of working with wood.

Moa Brännström Ott is a cabinetmaker who mostly makes custom furniture and objects for restaurants and artists, often with designers such as the design group Uglycute. She trained in cabinetmaking at Capellagården. In Swedish.

From the reviews:
"Inspiring and fun!" Land
"...clear instructions that help both beginners and experienced woodworkers realize their craft dreams." Allt om Stockholm