Bark was occasionally used as sheathing for walls as well as roofs on these structures. It was always hand peeled with simple barking spuds and chopped to length with an axe into usable sheets. Even progressing into the squared shingle era, woodsmen still hand chopped the shingles to length in the...

The earliest usage of bark for sheathing of man-made structures in North America came from the ingenuity and practicality of Native Americans. As different building techniques came across with settlers from Europe, a fusion of building designs using local materials was employed by these new...

To offer the client an option that satisfies both an era appropriate look as well as intriguing modern random flow, we created our Bark House Pioneer Shingle™. Modern bark harvest techniques require us to add the hand-axed edge as an extra service.