Robert Thompson - Mouseman® Oak furniture

Welcome to Robert Thompson’s Craftsmen Ltd website. We hope you enjoy our range of naturally seasoned English Oak furniture and gifts. We look forward to showing you our master craftsmen in action when you visit the North Yorkshire moors to see Robert Thompson’s legacy firsthand.

Enjoy browsing through our website and come to see us in this beautiful part of Yorkshire that we are lucky enough to call home. Visit our Mouseman Museum, have lunch in the highly commended T café, enjoy looking at the Robert Thompson range in the shop and go home with your very own piece of Robert Mouseman Thompson English oak. You can, of course, call us to place an order as well.

Air-dried, the oak is hand crafted into the beautiful items in the Robert Thompson’s Craftsmen range. The same hand tools, such as the adze, are still used today that Mousey Thompson learnt to work with in the late nineteenth century. Our craftsmen finish all our products by hand and carve their individual style of mouse on every item, large and small.

Robert Thompson, “The Mouseman of Kilburn”, recognised the relationship we have with wood and chose to work with only the best quality naturally seasoned English oak (quercus robur). The oak tree takes several hundred years to reach maturity and nature’s influence during that time will create variations in colour and texture. These add to the character of each item created at Robert Thompson’s and over the years the patina will develop with waxing and polishing. Robert loved this relationship between nature and creativity, developing his skills to produce the very finest craftsmanship in English oak.

Robert Thompson’s craftsmen create oak furniture for the home designed to fit within both the traditional and contemporary styles of living that today’s modern world offers. We provide choices in the final look of your personal, hand crafted item to fit your living environment. Today’s investment will become tomorrow’s heirloom.

Keep an eye on that mouse tho’, he’s partial to cheese!