furnituremaking
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furnituremaking (uncountable)
- The making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis; the business includes woodworking and (in some cases) upholstering.
- 1992, Morrison H. Heckscher, Leslie Greene Bowman, American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament[1], Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 133:
- Furnituremaking was one of the most universal of colonial enterprises. Not an industry susceptible to supervision from England, it was carried on domestically in small shops by no more than a handful of craftsmen at any one time.
- 1993, Thomas Max Safley, Leonard N. Rosenband, The Workplace Before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800[2], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
- By 1810 the federal census recorded a profusion of furnituremaking, leather manufacture, tool- and implement-making, woodenware production, metalworking, hatmaking, clockmaking, brewing, distilling, boot- and shoemaking, and a variety of other occupations in rural areas […]
- 2003, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, edited by E. Richard McKinstry, Guide to the Winterthur Library: The Joseph Downs Collection and the Winterthur Archives[3], Winterthur Museum, →ISBN, page 12:
- The unidentified compiler of this account book may have been John Hewitt, a furnituremaker from Savannah, Georgia. Accounts relate to furnituremaking and carpentry. There are drawings of furniture, including a bookcase and table.