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Updated: June 21, 2025
Claude wares that it is said there are three thousand different processes in turnery alone! A child's top, even though of the simplest, goes through a great number of stages before being finished for the markets. Chaplets are also manufactured largely, and is the earliest branch of industry, dating from the Middle Ages.
They are to be occupied in "learning to read and write true English, Latine and other useful speeches and languages, and fair writing, arithmatick and bookkeeping; and the boys to be taught and instructed in some mystery or trade, as the making of mathematical instruments, joynery, turnery, the making of blocks and watches, weaving, shoemaking, or any other useful trade or mystery that the school is capable of teaching; and the girls to be taught and instructed in spinning of flax and wool, and knitting of gloves and stockings, sewing and making of all sorts of useful needlework, and the making of straw-work, as hats, baskets, etc., or any other useful art or mystery that the school is capable of teaching.
E Does it train in order and exactness? F Does it allow cleanliness and neatness? G Does it cultivate the sense of form? H Is it beneficial from an hygienic point of view? I Does it allow methodical arrangement? Sloyd Carpentry |Yes |Yes |Yes? |Yes |Yes | | | | | Turnery |Yes? |Yes |No |No |No Carving in Wood |Yes |Yes & no|No |Yes |No Clay Modelling |No |Yes |No |Yes |No + + + + +
Its wood is compact and heavy, weighing forty-four pounds to the cubic foot. In France it is much used in turnery; and wine-casks are made from it, as it gives to white wines an agreeable flavour of violets. Vine-props and fences are made from its branches; and out of its bark by a process which I have not time to describe a cloth can be manufactured almost as fine as silk itself.
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