Collection no 3
Simple Joinery Cotton Strap Bench by Ian Anderson
Hempcrete Stool
2     Tape the cardboard together, forming a cylinder. Also tape the cylinder to a wooden board (or anything sturdy you don't mind getting messy).
5     Use your disposable cup to add 7 cups of hemp hurd to the mixing bucket.
8     Repeat steps 3-7 multiple times, until the cylinder is about 1/3 full.
10     Repeat steps 3-7 multiple times, filling the gap between the smaller cylinder and the larger one.
11     Fill the cylinder almost to the top. The last mix you make, use slightly less hemp (6 or 6.5 cups). Pat down the mix so that it is perfectly level all around the cylinder.
13     Boil some water in a saucepan and mix in some all purpose flour, making a thin papier-mâché paste. Wait for the mix to cool, and brush it all over the stool. It should dry clear and help keep the hemp from flaking off.
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Walden

Thoreau was writing at a time of rapid industrial development. Communication was speeding up, railroads were connecting people to distant places, and society was developing structures of dependence and control. As one of the transcendentalists, Thoreau saw the virtues of a life lived without the influence of this development encroaching on it. In this sense, he was one of the first to engage in a discourse of a sort of DIY. Most of us today feel just as he did before he went to the woods, and we have quite a lot to learn from what he experienced there.