The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Community in Colonial New England (Director’s Circle Book)

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Thomas Dennis emigrated to The us 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 typical method of making furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, and he became Ipswich’s second joiner, putting in shop in the heart of the village. Right through his lifetime, Dennis won wide renown as an artisan. As of late, connoisseurs pass judgement on his elaborately carved furniture as among the finest produced in seventeenth-century The us.

Robert Tarule, historian and accomplished craftsman, brilliantly recreates Dennis’s world in recounting how he created a single oak chest. Writing as a woodworker himself, Tarule vividly portrays Dennis walking through the woods on the lookout for the right trees; sawing and splitting the wood on website online; and working in his shop on the chest―planing, joining, and carving. Dennis inherited a knowledge of wood and woodworking that dated back centuries before he was once born, and Tarule traces this tradition from Old World to New. He also depicts the natural and social landscape in which Dennis operated, from the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial Ipswich and its surrounding countryside to the laws that governed his use of trees and his network of personal and professional relationships.

Thomas Dennis embodies a world that had begun to disappear even Right through his lifetime, one that As of late may seem unimaginably distant. Imaginatively conceived and elegantly executed, The Artisan of Ipswich gives readers a tangible understanding of that distant past.


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