furnituremaking

noun

Etymology

From furniture + making.

Definitions

  1. The making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis

    The 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.
    • 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.

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