Chichester, United Kingdom

Historic Craft Practices - Furniture

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.westdean.org.uk/
Foundation of Arts (FdA)
Craft
A craft or trade is a pastime or a profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small-scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example by tinkers. The traditional terms craftsman and craftswoman are nowadays often replaced by artisan and rarely by craftsperson (craftspeople).
Furniture
Furniture refers to movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., chairs, stools, and sofas), eating (tables), and sleeping (e.g., beds). Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks), or to store things (e.g., cupboards and shelves). Furniture can be a product of design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose. It can be made from many materials, including metal, plastic, and wood. Furniture can be made using a variety of woodworking joints which often reflect the local culture.
Furniture
I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
Eliza Cook, Old Arm-Chair; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 304.
Furniture
When on my three-foot stool I sit.
William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 3, line 89.
Furniture
Necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
And Luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.
William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book I, line 86.
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