- Kaufmann Mercantile is a library of essays on materials and the making of products, and an online store for carefully selected and well-designed goods.
Authors
- Aaron Nesser (1)
- Adrian Colesberry (1)
- Allen C. Thayer (1)
- Aurora Almendral (23)
- Autumn Giles (2)
- Brion Paul (9)
- Cass Daubenspeck (6)
- Catherine Wagley (2)
- Chauncey Hollingsworth (1)
- Daniel Lang (4)
- David Vega (14)
- Derrick Schneider (1)
- Drew Huffine (2)
- Eric Allen (1)
- Hans Schnier (1)
- James Fox (8)
- James Kirkland (1)
- Janice Horton (1)
- Jennifer S. Li (10)
- Jeremy Peterseil (1)
- Jessica Hundley (15)
- Jessie Kwak (3)
- Kelly Baumann (4)
- Lisa Bartfai (3)
- Liz Boyle (1)
- Lydia Reismueller (2)
- marco bruna (1)
- Matt Poitras (3)
- Mckenzie Santiago (1)
- Nic Denholm (2)
- Penny Kensington (1)
- Robert Rava (2)
- Rohan Anderson (1)
- Sarah Dohrmann (1)
- Scott Moe (1)
- Sebastian Kaufmann (32)
- Sonya Abrego (1)
- Sophie Wise (3)
- Sophie Zifcak (7)
- Susan Morrell (4)
- Terence E. Kiff (1)
Sites We Follow
- 10engines
- 826
- A Continuous Lean
- A Time To Get
- Amnesty International Blog
- An Ambitious Project Collapsing
- Backpacker Green Scene
- Backwoods Home Magazine
- Bltd
- Books and Bookshelves
- Caught By The River
- Cold Splinters
- Desert Air
- Erik Heywood
- Forestbound
- Frank Landau
- Good Magazine
- Google Books
- Handmade Charlotte
- Hollister Hovey
- Homegrown Evolution
- Horween
- Indian Summer Vintage
- Intelligent Travel
- Inventory Magazine
- Kiva
- Mister Mort
- NRDC Switchboard
- Reference Library
- Rotter & Friends
- secret forts
- Selectism
- Send A Raven
- Shorpy
- The Art Of Manliness
- The Boston Globe Big Picture
- The Impossible Cool
- The New Yorker
- The Selby
- The Trad
- Treehugger
- Videothing
- Vintage Workwear
- Wildwood
- You Have Been Here Sometime
Archives
- March 2013 (2)
- February 2013 (3)
- January 2013 (3)
- December 2012 (8)
- November 2012 (1)
- October 2012 (4)
- September 2012 (2)
- August 2012 (2)
- July 2012 (1)
- May 2012 (2)
- April 2012 (3)
- March 2012 (2)
- February 2012 (2)
- January 2012 (4)
- December 2011 (3)
- November 2011 (3)
- October 2011 (3)
- September 2011 (3)
- August 2011 (3)
- July 2011 (3)
- June 2011 (5)
- May 2011 (4)
- April 2011 (4)
- March 2011 (4)
- February 2011 (5)
- January 2011 (4)
- December 2010 (2)
- November 2010 (2)
- October 2010 (2)
- September 2010 (3)
- August 2010 (6)
- July 2010 (3)
- June 2010 (4)
- May 2010 (6)
- April 2010 (7)
- March 2010 (10)
- February 2010 (10)
- January 2010 (12)
- December 2009 (14)
- November 2009 (13)
- October 2009 (2)
Author: Chauncey Hollingsworth
Chauncey Hollingsworth has written for the Atlantic, Black Book, Details,
Maxim, Playboy, Rolling Stone and a variety of other publications. He lives
in Brooklyn.
Cedar
Your first exposure to cedar was probably your parents or grandparents slipping thin slabs of this fragrant, reddish wood into boxes of winter clothing to keep the moths away. Or maybe you’ve purchased cedar wood clothes hangers for the same effect. (Most early American homes had a cedar chest specifically for shielding precious clothing and books from the ravages of moths and silverfish.) But there’s a lot more to cedar than repelling insects.
Cedar Forest. Image by Vivian Benson.
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