Meanings
- uncountableThe making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis; the business includes woodworking and (in some cases) upholstering.
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.
1992, Morrison H. Heckscher, Leslie Greene Bowman, American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 1332 more examples
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 […]
1993, Thomas Max Safley, Leonard N. Rosenband, The Workplace Before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 18The 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.
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, Winterthur Museum, →ISBN, page 12
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