Fairy-Folk Furniture Table

Fairy Table Top

My wife said to me: 'What about making a few rooms, you know, the place where Fairies like to relax and chill'.
So that got me thinking, and the first aspect that came to mind was scale, and what Fairy furniture would look like. I'd seen some other hand-crafted furniture and as nice as some of it was, one of the big problems was scale; or rather using natural products like twigs and wood and still maintaining that element of scale.
It wasn't so much about length and width; that's easy to achieve. It is more about thickness.
For example at 1:12 scale a 1/4 inch represents 3 inches and sometimes, although it is perfectly fine in real life to have a 3inch thick chair leg or 3 inch thick table-top. In miniature world, a perfectly scaled piece of furniture can still look a little chunky, so that is what I will try and tackle and let you see the results.

The above picture is my first attempt at creating a table-top. It is made from a slice of natural Agate and the simulated wood surround has been cut from a Texture-Sheet that I produce from Paper-Clay. The thickness is about 1/6th of an inch which would be about 2 inches in the real world.
The Texture-Sheet gives a broader spectrum for the design and creativity. It is also very easy to work with as it is tough, maintains a degree of flexibility, and accepts colour well.

Miniature Table

 Here is the result of combining the table top with some well-chosen pieces of driftwood.

I have created this with 1/12th scale in mind, but it could adapt to other scales depending on the size of table you might be looking for.




When it comes to legs, it quickly became apparent that an eye for pairing similar, but not the same, items was important.

Miniature Driftwood Fairy Table

Agate-slice table Top