WE did another YOU TUBE video showing how to clean kitchen cabinets with
The Craftsman Furniture Dressing.
The video lasts a bit, so sit back and grab a a beverage. I think you’ll get some valuable information. ENJOY
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I hope to prove her wrong.
You may have found our website while searching for Stickley furniture and other Arts and Crafts furniture made in the early 1900s.
You clearly value furniture made over a hundred years ago and you want the the finishes to last another 100 years. Current Arts and Crafts furniture manufacturers are (actually) telling their customers to use a damp cloth to keep the finish looking great.
And you know that can’t be right. A damp rag is great for wiping up spilled soup … alas, not so good for the furniture’s finish.
A few months ago on EBAY I found a signed Gustav Stickley child's chair that looked terrible! People passed on it. It was a bargain, but I knew that our dressing would bring out the finish that was still there.
To demonstrate how well this dressing works on something that is 110-years old (and has been neglected,) we made two “You Tube” videos as I worked on the chair.
We’ve sold thousands of cans to antique dealers, restorers, curators and auction houses for 40+ years!
But our greatest satisfaction is seeing our repeat customers who have returned time and time again—confident in the knowledge that The Craftsman Furniture Dressing is the only product they will use for their furniture
Any furniture’s finish starts to break down with daily use, sunlight, (soup wiped up with a wet cloth!) forced air heat, etc. The dressing is not a polish. It’s based on a formulation that’s over 120 years old--the time frame of the Arts & Crafts movement—and created by finishers—Craftsmen. The dressing removes the hand oils, fingerprints, trapped dust, the dirt of time, at the same time revealing the colors and feeding the finish. There’s no wax and certainly no silicone! (It does not make your furniture shiny!)
50 years ago, I rescued Gustav Stickley’s business papers and the glass photo negatives from his catalog illustrations. All of this ended up at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Forty years ago, The Craftsman philosophy inspired me to register The Craftsman™ name and trademark. If you are not familiar with The Craftsman™ and our trademark (a joiner’s compass enclosing the motto Als ik Kan,) it’s on each can of our dressing.
For 50 years we have repaired and restored the furniture made by Gustav Stickley, L&J.G. Stickley, Stickley Bros., Limbert, Harden, J.M. Young —and countless others in our shop in Eastwood, NY--making our own colors to match--as well as making custom furniture.
And in the 50 years I've been involved with furniture, I’ve never seen anything that cleans and feeds furniture finishes as well as our dressing.
Directions for use:
Use sparingly in a well ventilated area
1) Dust the surface to be polished.
2) Apply a small amount of dressing to soft, lint-free cloth.
3) Rub surface with the grain using moderate pressure.
4) Wait 5 minutes
5) With a clean, soft 100% cotton cloth wipe the surface dry, removing all surplus dressing. Wipe with the grain
6) For a piece that has been ignored for years (and that you might want to show at Grove Park), a bit more liberal use of the dressing will reap dividends, as shown in our videos.
I’ve been asked repeatedly: “Why don’t you sell The Craftsman Furniture Dressing on-line?” My response has been: “People can find it on our website. My wife suggested that over the last 30 years perhaps not everyone has looked at the website. I was shocked!!
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Tell a friend.
~Ron Cosser for The Craftsman
thecraftsman@thecraftsman.com
I’ve never had any affiliation with Audi, Stickley & Co.
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