[1] These were at first incorporated as Brynmawr and Clydach Valleys Ltd and included knitting, Welsh tweed, boot-making and furniture-making in a former boot factory.
[1] In time it emerged that only boot-making and furniture manufacturing could provide sustainable employment for workers, the former because of retained local knowledge and the latter because of the inspirational leadership of Paul Matt.
[1] At the time it was unusual to use laminated plywood as it was considered low quality, but Paul Matt believed that using a framework made them more secure.
Brynmawr Furniture Makers were commissioned to make the bardic chair for the 1938 National Eisteddfod of Wales, which that year was held in Cardiff.
[4] A small committee of experts representing the Society and the 1938 Eisteddfod chosen to work alongside the Brynmawr Furniture Makers to be responsible for the design.
In keeping with the traditions of Brynmawr furniture, ornamentation was restrained and sparse, limited to the reeding of the arm-uprights where the fingers rest.
The leather at the back of the chair bore a coloured representation of the Arms of Wales in red and gold as registered at the College of Heralds.