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Crafts, Trades and Industries

Archive Sub-series: LAVC/FLF/3/7

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: Crafts, Trades and Industries

Level: Sub-series

Classmark: LAVC/FLF/3/7

Date(s): 1951-1981

Size and medium: 2 boxes [1 part] with 20 files of ms., typed and photocopied papers, magazine extracts, offprints and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings.; 0.82 linear metres.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410603

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

This subseries contains items on traditional crafts, trades and industries. The subjects represented include crafts in Warwickshire and Ireland, terminology relating to wheelwrighting, Sam Hanna's films of traditional crafts, building techniques and vernacular architecture, a survey of buildings in Conistone (North Yorkshire), the tradition of topping-out, woodworkers' tools and wooden industries, marbling, basketmaking, ropemaking, clogmaking, textile industries including knitting and lacemaking, knitting sticks and related items, needlework boxes, nailmaking, blacksmithing, metalwork, pottery, brickmaking, glassware, stone industries and allied crafts, and the manufacture of alum, salt and gunpowder.

Provenance

The original file-labelling has been retained in the unit-title of each file where possible.

System of arrangement

The files within this subseries are retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

There are no access restrictions on items in the Folk Life File.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

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