Author: Philip ZeaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Furniture-making in Rural New England Before 1812
Author: Philip ZeaRural New England Furniture
Author: Dublin Seminar for New England FolklifePublisher: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Furniture of Rural New England
Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
New England Furniture
Author: Brock JobePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Country Furniture of Early Americ
Author: Henry Lionel WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258402198
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Pine Furniture of Early New England
Author: Russell H. KettellPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486201457
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Working plans and drawings for the amateur carpenter are included in this guide to the pine furniture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
New England Furniture at Williamsburg
Author: Barry A. GreenlawPublisher: Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN: 9780879350192
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This catalog illustrates and describes 164 pieces of New England furniture in the Colonial Williamsburg collection, including examples of nearly every type of household furniture made and used during the colonial period.
The Artisan of Ipswich
Author: Robert TarulePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421405857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Thomas Dennis emigrated to America from England in 1663, settling in Ipswich, a Massachusetts village a long day's sail north of Boston. He had apprenticed in joinery, the most common method of making furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, and he became Ipswich's second joiner, setting up shop in the heart of the village. During his lifetime, Dennis won wide renown as an artisan. Today, connoisseurs judge his elaborately carved furniture as among the best produced in seventeenth-century America. Robert Tarule, historian and accomplished craftsman, brilliantly recreates Dennis's world in recounting how he created a single oak chest. Writing as a woodworker himself, Tarule vividly portrays Dennis walking through the woods looking for the right trees; sawing and splitting the wood on site; and working in his shop on the chest—planing, joining, and carving. Dennis inherited a knowledge of wood and woodworking that dated back centuries before he was born, and Tarule traces this tradition from Old World to New. He also depicts the natural and social landscape in which Dennis operated, from the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial Ipswich and its surrounding countryside to the laws that governed his use of trees and his network of personal and professional relationships. Thomas Dennis embodies a world that had begun to disappear even during his lifetime, one that today may seem unimaginably distant. Imaginatively conceived and elegantly executed, The Artisan of Ipswich gives readers a tangible understanding of that distant past.
A New Nation of Goods
Author: David JaffeePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812222008
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.
Making Furniture in Preindustrial America
Author: Edward S. CookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A study of the furniture-makers, social structure, household possessions and surviving pieces of furniture of two neighbouring New England communities. Drawing on documentary and artifactual sources, the author explores the interplay among producer, process and style in demonstrating why and how the social economies of these two seemingly similar towns differed significantly during the late colonial and early national periods.