"For instance, a house carpenter wasn't permitted to cut miters or make his own bedstead. In Bruges, Belgium, he wasn't even allowed to apply glue to his work." Damn right! Bring back the Guild privileges, I say. Time to teach those chippies a lesson :-)
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I bought 'The Village Carpenter' by Walter Rose a couple of years ago and re-read it recently; it's a beautiful book. Interesting, informative and inspiring, but most of all a beautiful description of rural woodworking life ante bellum.
Surely joiners were between the carpenters and the cabinetmakers? (and able to use mitres and glue) Or were things different in the Low Countries?
"For instance, a house carpenter wasn't permitted to cut miters or make his own bedstead. In Bruges, Belgium, he wasn't even allowed to apply glue to his work." Damn right! Bring back the Guild privileges, I say. Time to teach those chippies a lesson :-)
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I bought 'The Village Carpenter' by Walter Rose a couple of years ago and re-read it recently; it's a beautiful book. Interesting, informative and inspiring, but most of all a beautiful description of rural woodworking life ante bellum.