Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Tom Mareschall carries a 2.5m-long tree trunk across the workshop, lays it down and then raises an axe above his head ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To many, the idea of going to the woods, cutting down a tree, crafting a simple longbow, and taking a deer with it is nuts—very ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Robin Hood, the forest-dwelling vigilante and nemesis of the Sheriff of Nottingham, has received yet another boost to ...

MARNE -- In a small room in the back of a wooden building on his property, Larry Hanify can be found sitting at his computer working up a new design. The large vertical mill to his left is shaping a ...

So it should be no surprise that harnessing that fantasy and adding a touch of realism proves an attractive recipe for Victorians of all sorts. Such is the accomplishment of Ballarat’s Rare Trades ...