Moreover, American woods were used; where Yorkshire chairs had been chiefly of oak, the Philadelphia ladder-backs were of maple and sometimes hickory.
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Ladder-back
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Clissett was a "badger" -a man who made chairs from green wood who had been making handsome ladder-backs since the 1850s.
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The Woody chairs are fashioned in simple mountain style with comfortably curved two-slat backs; they make four-slat rockers, children's high chairs, low play-chairs, ladder-backs, and chairs with woven insets between the posts;
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