Wooden Quilting Clappers

Each clapper is built in two layers: a base of cherry or maple, topped with the most figured wood in the shop, then weighted so the mass — not your arm — sets the seam flat as it cools. Every one is a one-off.

New to clappers? After you steam-press a seam, set the clapper on it while the fabric cools. The mass holds the seam flat and the bare hardwood sole drinks the steam, so blocks lie flatter and points meet cleaner — no scorching, no re-pressing.

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Rectangular clapper with curly walnut ends and a spalted maple center, on a black bench

Clappers · One of one

№ 1 — Curly Walnut & Spalted Maple

Curly walnut shoulders around a spalted maple heart — quiet figure on the ends, ink lines in the middle.

$75

Rectangular clapper of heavily spalted maple with a plain walnut band across the center

Clappers · One of one

№ 2 — Spalted Maple, Walnut Band

Heavily spalted maple end to end, with one calm band of straight walnut across the middle.

$75

Rectangular clapper pieced from maple burl, a lace red mallee burl band, and figured walnut

Clappers · One of one

№ 3 — Maple Burl, Red Mallee Burl & Walnut

Three woods in one top: pale maple burl, a lace of red burl between, and figured walnut to finish.

$75

Rectangular clapper with walnut burl ends and a bright curly chestnut center

Clappers · One of one

№ 4 — Walnut Burl & Curly Chestnut

Walnut burl at each end, and a center of curly chestnut that flashes like ripples on water.

$75

Rectangular clapper of burled maple with a narrow red mallee burl band near one end

Clappers · One of one

№ 5 — Burl Maple, Red Mallee Inlay

A full top of burled maple with one narrow band of red burl set off-center, like a single seam of thread.

$75

Rectangular clapper with a dark rosewood panel running diagonally across curly maple

Clappers · One of one

№ 6 — Rosewood on Curly Maple

A dark rosewood panel cut on the diagonal across bright curly maple — the only diagonal in the batch.

$75

Rectangular clapper of spalted curly maple with a red mallee burl band across the center

Clappers · One of one

№ 7 — Spalted Maple, Red Mallee Burl Band

Spalted, curly maple across the whole top, split by a center band of deep red burl.

$75

Past clappers

Designs that have left the bench. If one of them is what your pressing table needs, request it and we'll make another in the same spirit.

Long spalted maple clapper with an inlaid ladybug of red and dark wood between two walnut bands

Clappers · One of one

Ladybug — Spalted Maple, Inlaid Ladybug

A ladybug pieced in red and dark hardwood, crossing a spalted maple field between two walnut bands. Sold, and much missed.

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Square clapper pieced from walnut and maple triangles in a star quilt block, with a turned maple burl knob at the center

Clappers · One of one

Pieced Star — Walnut & Maple, Burl Handle

A full star block pieced in walnut and maple, with a turned maple burl knob at its center. The shop's signature, in the sold column.

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Also from the bench: magnetic pin holders · seam rippers