Folk & Frame crafts timber structures the old way—with mortise and tenon joinery, wooden pegs, and the hands of your community on raising day.
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Timber framing is one of humanity’s oldest building traditions—a craft where heavy timbers are joined without nails or screws, held fast by joinery cut by hand and locked with wooden pegs.
At Folk & Frame, we believe the raising is as important as the building. We invite your people, family, friends, and neighbors to help lift the frame into place. It’s a barn raising for the modern age, and the structure carries the memory of that day forever.
Handcrafted timber arbors that become the backdrop to your ceremony — and a keepsake you can install at home afterwards.
Open-air structures with embellished joinery. Designed to weather decades while vines climb and seasons turn.
Freestanding gathering spaces with traditional post-and-beam construction. From garden retreats to functional outbuildings.
Small enclosed structures built with timber frame and straw infill — a sustainable, cozy, breathtakingly beautiful way to live small.
A New England tradition deserves a proper home. Timber-framed sugarhouses built to last generations — where sap becomes syrup and neighbors become friends.
We organize and lead community raising events. Bring your people together for a day of meaningful work and celebration.
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Folk & Frame grew from a simple conviction: that the way we build matters as much as what we build. Every mortise is cut by hand. Every tenon is fitted tight. Every peg is driven home.
Based in the Stow, Massachusetts area, we serve communities across New England. We’re always learning—currently catching up with straw bale construction methods as a sustainable, high-insulation infill for modest timber frame homes.
Whether it’s a wedding arbor or a tiny house, we bring the same care—and we’ll bring your people together to raise it.
Every project starts with a conversation. Tell us what you’re dreaming about, and we’ll figure out how to raise it.
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