...are prized today for the patience and skill required to make them. Brent
Rourke spends many hours carefully handcrafting these 
quality
Shaker oval boxes and carriers to last for generations.
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Rourke's workshop
in Bloomfield, New Brunswick looks out over the fields that were plowed
by the Loyalists who settled the Kennebecasis 
River
valley. The vibrant colours of this Northeastern Canadian landscape
provide a source of inspiration for this master box maker. He
hand selects the wood that will be used in his pieces - only the finest walnut,
cherry and birds-eye maple will do.
With over twenty years experience in shaping wood, Rourke has gained the appreciation of many fine art collectors for his exceptional Shaker Boxes and carriers. You'll prize your Brent Rourke's Shaker boxes for their simple elegance.
We now sell Shaker Box making supplies so that you can make your own Shaker Boxes.
Often in the midst of a religious march, all stop, and with all their might set to stamping with both feet. And it is no uncommon thing for many of the worshipping assembly to crow like a parcel of young chanticleers, while others imitate the barking of dogs; and many of the young women set to whirling round and round—while the old men shake and clap their hands; the whole making a scene of noise and confusion, which can be better imagined than described. The elders seriously told me that these things were the outward manifestations of the spirit of God. From "A Lowell Mill Worker Visits the Shakers"