Antique furniture produced in eighteenth-century Williamsburg serves as patterns for work produced today in Colonial Williamsburg's restored Hay's Cabinetmaking shop. This documentary captures the master of the shop, as he uses the tools and technology of the era to reproduce the sculpted cabriole legs, carved ball-and-claw feet, carved acanthus leaf decoration, mortise and tenon, dovetails, and a wooden hinge of a 1760s card table. This program will interest collectors and producers of fine furniture and technical enthusiasts who want to know more about traditional methods of furniture structure and decoration.
A documentary on the inhabitants of South Williamsburg, New York, whose lives are explored through the testimony of five inhabitants of the Brooklyn neighborhood.
This is a story of remarkable generosity and considerable personal participation, chronicled here through archival photos and film, a narrative drawn from the record, and the first-person recollections of David Rockefeller.
Explains the role of the blacksmith in colonial America, and includes a demonstration of the tools and skills used to turn metal into farm implements, axes, and more.
This is Ivor Noel Hume's four-year archaeological discovery of Martin's Hundred Plantation, a seventeenth-century plantation that supplied many of the agricultural needs of colonial Williamsburg.
Ivor Noel Hume takes viewers on a journey to several excavation sites in Colonial Williamsburg. You'll learn how experts date what they find and use laboratory processes to understand and protect the artifacts.
Colonial Williamsburg's curators, conservators, archaeologists, and historic tradespeople pool their expertise to reveal the merits of early southern furniture and the technical skills of its creators.
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