5 Results for tag "Woodworking"

• Thomas Jefferson and John Hemings: A Collaboration

  During this lecture explore how after his retirement, Jefferson returned to Monticello, where he relied on John Hemings, an enslaved woodworker, to build and decorate Monticello.

• Family Workshop: Cabinetmaker

  Join us for an in-depth, hands-on tour and demonstration of hand planes–one of the traditional woodworker’s most indispensable tools.

• Tour: Arboretum Central Historic Area

  Learn about some of Colonial Williamsburg's most asked-about trees, how the colonists used them, and why they continue to be important today.

• Missing the Forest for the Trees

  Guests at the Joinery love to ask how my coworkers and I became 18th-century woodworkers. It’s a fair question; our job is certainly unusual, and I would be lying if I said that my guidance counselor suggested “historic woodworking” to me as a career opportunity. I can’t speak for my …

• Innermost House Frame Project Blog

  For over forty years, I served as Master Carpenter in the Historic Trades Program at Colonial Williamsburg. In many ways, we perform the same work as carpenters did in 18th-century Williamsburg: we raise and cover new buildings, we build onto existing structures through additions, we remove and upgrade woodwork, we …