Making Colonial Furniture

Making Colonial Furniture
Author: James M. O'Neill
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486296661

Expert, illustrated hands-on guide enables even beginners to make 24 authentic pieces: butter churn table, pedestal table, apothecary chest, deacons' bench, dry sink, hutch, more. Exploded drawings help visualize construction. Detailed instructions plus advice on wood, gluing and clamping, finishing, hardware, more. 74 black-and-white illustrations.

Making Colonial Furniture Reproductions

Making Colonial Furniture Reproductions
Author: John Gerald Shea
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1994-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486282626

This excellent how-to book provides woodworkers with all the information and instructions they need to construct accurate and beautiful replicas of such attractive pieces as a drop-lid desk, pine dresser, wing chair, butterfly trestle table, paneled chest, bookcases, and other authentic replicas. Over 300 illustrations.

Southern Furniture 1680-1830

Southern Furniture 1680-1830
Author: Ronald Hurst
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 639
Release: 1997-09-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780810941755

Provides a history of the South's cabinetmaking traditions

Colonial Furniture Making for Everybody

Colonial Furniture Making for Everybody
Author: John Gerald Shea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1976
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780442275457

Step-by-step instructions for amateur craftsmen at home and industrial arts students in schools.

Art & Industry in Early America

Art & Industry in Early America
Author: Patricia E. Kane
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0300217846

This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illustrations of beautifully constructed and carved objects—including chairs, high chests, bureau tables, and clocks—that demonstrate the superb workmanship and artistic skill of the state’s furniture makers.

Making Furniture in Preindustrial America

Making Furniture in Preindustrial America
Author: Edward S. Cooke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1996-07-26
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

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.

Everyday Life in Early America

Everyday Life in Early America
Author: David F. Hawke
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1989-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0060912510

"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly

Making Furniture Masterpieces

Making Furniture Masterpieces
Author: Franklin H. Gottshall
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486156729

Step-by-step instructions, illustrations for constructing handsome, useful pieces, among them a Sheraton desk, Chippendale chair, Spanish desk, Queen Anne table, and a William and Mary dressing mirror.