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According to
strict guild regulations in
force until the Revolution,
French chairmaking was the
business of the
menuisier alone,
whose craft was
conjoined with...
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considerable commerce in wine and in
stone from the
neighboring quarries.
Chairmaking was an
important industry.
There are
several industrial areas to the...
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Retrieved 22
April 2016. Mayes,
Leonard John (1960), The
History of
Chairmaking in High Wycombe, London:
Routledge & K. Paul, OCLCÂ 4378040 Venn, J. A...
- Mountains. The
concessions include pottery, quilt-making, woodcarving,
chairmaking, blacksmiths,
apple cider,
fried apple pies,
dried apples,
apple jam...
- and
Chair Makers' Real
Friend and Companion, or the
Whole System of
Chairmaking Made
Plain and Easy (1765); The Carpenters'
Compleat Guide to Gothic...
- of the town, and
provides their names.
Wycombe was once
renowned for
chairmaking (the town's
football team is
nicknamed the 'Chairboys') and furniture...
- from
Roman and
mediaeval times, and
displays on
local crafts including chairmaking, lace
making and
straw plait. It
originally opened to the
public in 1991...
- that the
angle of the hole can be adjusted. This is very
important in
chairmaking,
because all the
angles are
usually eyeballed.
Another advantage is that...
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meeting room of the Art
Workers Guild, and
inspired Ernest Gimson to
learn chairmaking from
Clissett himself.
MacLaren caught a
severe chill which brought on...
- and
operated by
Michael Dunbar [1],
where five-day
courses in
Windsor chairmaking were
taught year round. The
school had its
final class, an 'Early Philadelphia...
