Vernacular craft to machine assisted industry: the division of labour and the development of machine use in vernacular chair-making in High Wycombe 1870-1920

This paper explores the changes in vernacular1 chair-making in High Wycombe, UK, in the period 1870-1920. High Wycombe was once known as the chair-making capital of Britain, its fame initially coming from the vernacular ‘Windsor’ type chairs that were made in the locality, and then developing into a...

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Main Author:	Clive Edwards
Format:	Default Conference proceeding
Published:	2009
Subjects:	Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified untagged Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/9476
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