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Free Shopify theme · Books & Education · Clean Minimal
A forest green and copper storefront for a Vermont workshop that turns maple counting frames by hand so young children can see a hundred.
Published October 17, 2026. Built from a brief, no account needed to download.
Tally & Dowel is a one lathe workshop in a former creamery outside Montpelier, Vermont, run by Ruth Abernathy, who taught first grade for nineteen years before she started it. She turns every bead from beech dowel, stains half of each row with a plant based copper finish, threads ten beads on each steel rod, and pins the rods into a frame of local hard maple sealed with beeswax.
A small maker of learning tools that parents and teachers buy to keep for years: counting frames, wooden fraction tiles, tangram sets, alphabet blocks. Buyers want to see how the thing teaches before they read about it, so the page opens on the frame standing on a maple table with its five and five pattern plain at a glance, comes in close on the turned beads and the grain, then shows the dowel being shaped on the lathe. The Clean Minimal layout sets the photo beside a plain sans serif heading with sharp buttons, which leaves room to say the age range and the games card next to the frame itself.
The style is Clean Minimal on its second variant. The primary is a deep forest green like a classroom chalkboard, the background is a warm paper white, and the accent is copper to match the stained half of every bead row, so the buy button carries the same colour a child counts by. The brand facts lead with the five and five split because that is the reason a teacher picks this frame over a rainbow one, and the finish goes into the facts because parents of four year olds ask what is on the wood.
