The Artisan of Ipswich
Craftsmanship and Community in Colonial New England
by Robert Tarule
"Thomas Dennis emigrated to America from England in 1663, settling in Ipswich, a Massachusetts village a long day's sail north of Boston. He had apprenticed in joinery, the most common method of making furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, and he became Ipswich's second joiner, setting up shop in the heart of the village. During his lifetime, Dennis won wide renown as an artisan. Today, connoisseurs judge his elaborately carved furniture as among the best produced in seventeenth-century America." "Robert Tarule, historian and craftsman, recreates Dennis's world in recounting how he erected a single oak chest."--BOOK JACKET.
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Artisans, Biography, Handicraft, History, Joinery, Social conditions, Workmanship, Artisans, united states, Massachusetts, social conditions, New england, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Massachusetts, biography, Massachusetts, historyPlaces
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The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Community in Colonial New England
September 6, 2007, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Community in Colonial New England
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The artisan of Ipswich: craftsmanship and community in colonial New England
2004, Johns Hopkins University Press
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"IF FURNITURE COULD TALK, what might it tell?"
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