Historical Craftsmen at Work

Illustrations of artisans in traditional workshops, including lathe operators and pewterers. The images capture the essence of craftsmanship and vintage occupations.

A Printing Shop, Engraving on paper, England, Print, Print

Leiden, Vliet, Jan Georg van, Occupations, Worker behind a lathe, verso lower left - stamped, A man behind a lathe. Chisels on the back wall. A spinning wheel in the foreground., print, prent, prints, height 210 mm, width 162 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1610 - 1668, print maker, printmaker, 1635 - 1635, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Pewterer hammering a pewter mug on an anvil in his workshop. Products include plates, tankards, spoons, teapots, coffee pots, jugs, etc. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J. Rivington, London, 1821.

Worker behind a lathe; Professions. A man behind a lathe. On the back wall chisels. In the foreground a spinning wheel.

A Printing Shop, Engraving on paper, England, Print, Print

Buyers' bearing; Professions. Two buyers bearings in a workshop; One of them harms on a tub, the other cuts a copper plate.

'Thames subway between Tower Hill and Vine Street: Sinking the shaft on the Tower Hill side of the river. A steam-power windlass is being used to lift buckets of spoil. Engraving, 1869.'

Chair maker, spinner and sawing man, Francesco Baretta, after Pietro Mainoto, c. 1700 - c. 1850 print View in a kitchen with a chair maker, a spider star and a sawing man. On the right is a boiler on the fire. In the lower margin the title. Italy paper engraving spinning (manufacture of yarn). stool. crafts and industries. craft-production, skilled handiwork. sawing (industrial process)

'The Dyer: Interior of a dye house with cloth being immersed in a vat, foreground. Centre left, water is being pumped into a large wooden vessel. From ''The Book of English Trades'', London, 1823.'

Batting raw cotton with holly or hazel twigs to remove some dirt and seeds before it was hand-picked. Engraving, London, 1845.

Enoch Wood Perry, Weaving, 1876, wood engraving on paper.

19th century, Brazier, soldering a piece of copper or zinc alloy, in readiness for electroplating with silver. Elkington & Co, silver manufacturer, Birmingham. English; illustration, 1844

Kuiper, anonymous, after Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, 1635 - 1685 print Two men are making tons in a workshop. paper etching / engraving wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket. craft-production, skilled handiwork

Buyer bearing. Two buyers bearings in a workshop; One of them harms on a tub, the other cuts a copper plate.

The Poultry Market at LEADENHALL MARKET 1876

Pressure workshop with a litecker and a plate printer; Imprimeur Lithographe et l'Imprimeur and Waist-Douce; Arts and crafts; Arts et Métiers. Interior of a printers workshop with a litters ink ink with a stone. For a cupboard with lithostenen, a man is engaged in polishing lithostes. Prints hang against the wall, including a portrait of Alois Senefelder. On the right, a busier serves a recording press. Behind him a man is engaged in the interior of a copper plate.

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Kuiper at work in his workshop, Piet Verhaert, 1883 print paper etching workshop-interior. handicrafts, craftsman at work. wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket

The sorting of ores, historical account from Georgius Agricola, De re metallica libri XII, Berg- und Huettenwesen, Metallkunde, published 1556

United States. 19th century. Miners inside the Consolidated Virginia mine. Engraving in "Frank Leslie's", 1878.

Thimble-maker's workshop. Dated 1698.

Potters workshop: boy turning the wheel while the potter raises a pot. Engraving, London, 1882.

Turning a piece of pottery that has already been shaped on the potters wheel: Minton & Companys factory Stoke-on-Trent (The Potteries), Staffordshire, England. Engraving, London, 1885.

Bindery. Artisans using the loom for sewing and the press for moulding. Drawing and engraving by Jost Amman, 16th century. "Les Arts au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1877.

Woodcut depicts the early process of paper making. The raw materials would be placed in a trough to be macerated by hammers operated by a water-wheel. It would then be mixed with water in a vat by a 'vatman'. The Vatman would then use moulds to form thin spongy sheets. Wooden screw-press the sheets are pressed in piles of 144 and separated by layers of the felt the paper is then hung to dry. Dated 16th Century

Buttonmaker in apron raising a weight on a pulley to stamp a metal button. The workshop has a press, molds, hammers and buttons on a table. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J. Rivington, London, 1821.

An engraving depicting the inside of a Swiss alpine chalet. A supply of firewood is stored overhead.

Iron forging: interior view, beating and cutting of iron containers with various tools of the trade. Etching after G. Juliet.

Potter at work at the Wedgwood's Etruria factory, Hanley, Staffordshire. Assistant turns wheel to operate belt driving potter's wheel. Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) English potter and industrtialist. Hand-coloured engraving c1830.

Illustration showing Silver plate: Brazier shaping a piece of copper/nickel/zinc alloy, which would eventually be electroplated with silver. Elkington's works, Birmingham 1844

An engraving depicting a cobbler mending shoes. Dated 19th century

Colouring for preserves, Egrot company in Paris, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact origina...

Industry, Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory, 1870, Holland, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original..

Masons, Jan Gillisz. van Vliet, 1635 print Leiden paper etching mason at work. making the carcass (~ building activities). stone ~ building material. clay and sand, etc. ~ building material

Interior of the Sugar Factory of the company Vom Rath. .

The manufacture of shells, watched by a supervisor, at Woolwich Arsenal munitions factory, London Date: 1862

Bronzing steel pens, Hinks, Wells & Co's factory. Birmingham. England 1851.

Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.

Glass Blower, European Trades - 1820

Interieur van een drukkerij.Interior of a printing company with a printing press in the middle. On the right a man wipes a plate. The printed paper is hanging.

An engraving depicting the boiling and crushing of grain in a mash tun, prior to using it for distilling spirits. (c 1860)

Beekeeper, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1631 - 1668 print The beekeeper standing at his beehives, hits a sort of pan with a stick. On Verso text in French and German. Netherlands paper etching bee-keeper. bee-hive

'A Chinese distiller at work at still and furnace. Stipple engraving, London, 1812.'

Engraving depicting the making of nails in the Dudley area of the Black Country: a girl pointing spike nails. While using the hammer in her hand, she would simultaneously work an 'oliver' or mechanical hammer with her foot. The weekly wage for this exhausting work was about 25p.

Loom in 1856, France, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, Europe

Inserting blasting caps into dynamite cartridges to blow up Flood Rock, East River, part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex, which was partially removed in 1876 and 1885. These rocks prevented large ships from reaching New York Harbour and posed a danger to smaller vessels. From Scientific American, New York, 1885, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Tin Smith, European Trades - 1820

Watercolor representing bar iron with the railing hammer in Karlholms Forge, Dalarna October 1930. Last old fashioned forging in Sweden.

Scutching or dressing flax by beating the stalks by machine. The long fibres of the stem Flax plant (Linum) were processed to produce linen. Engraving from 'Great Industries of Great Britain' (London, c1880).

Worker at a wooden fence. A worker with hat, seen on the back, standing in front of a wooden fence. At the bottom right of the top of a ladder and a pulley with hook on a rope.

An engraving of a 'Malt porter', at Barclays's Brewery, Southwark, London. 1841. these men took the malted barley across the Street from the malt warehouse to the brewery, in two bushels or baskets. Dated 19th century

Tools and equipment for the production of butter, Holstein milk cellar with Destinon milk containers, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

An engraving depicting the manufacturing of beaver hats: shaping a beaver hat on a block. Dated 19th century

Small-scale up-to-date dairy showing hand-operated 'Danish' centrifugal cream separator, left. The woman is shaping the butter into rounds with wooden 'Scotch hands'. From 'The Practical Grocer' (London, 1905). Halftone.

Interior of a cellar. French School. 18th c. Potters doing jars. Painting. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum).

Women and children are working at large cotton looms. Lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.

Small-scale up-to-date dairy showing hand-operated 'Danish' centrifugal cream separator, left. The woman is shaping the butter into rounds with wooden 'Scotch hands'. From The Practical Grocer (London, 1905). Halftone.

Potter at work at the Wedgwood's Etruria factory, Hanley, Staffordshire, c1830. Artist: Unknown

United Kingdom, England, Working conditions in coal mines, the miners leaving the pits, engraving, 1870

Interior of a traditional French Fromagerie, Metzeral, Alsace-Lorraine, France, Europe. Across Alsace and Lorraine by Charles Grad 1884. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1906

Printing and Lettergieterij, Anonymous, 1829 - 1880 print Interior of a book printing company with a man behind a letter cabinet on the left and a printer with his helper in the middle, busy inking the battle. In the background on the right two men at work in a letter foundry. Nummered in the bottom left: No. 78. paper printing press. tools, implements of printer

Iron Forge, circa 1850

An engraving depicting the Huntley & Palmer's factory, Reading. Dated 19th century

This image shows Louis XVI at the forge at Versailles. Louis XVI was an amateur blacksmith.

THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN, VIEWS AT THE SCENES OF THE DISASTER

An English Carpentry Shop by Forrest C. Crooks, 1893-1982

Paper making: Woman cutting and sorting rags. Engraving 1866.

Flirtation in A Cowshed, Govert Dircksz. Camphuysen, 1645 - 1672 painting In a cough, a servant scares a farmer's girl by grabbing her chair from behind. Two cows watch, there are barrels, baskets and a large pot on the floor. panel. oil paint (paint) stall, stable. lovers' meeting

Woodcut depicts the early process of paper making. The raw materials would be placed in a trough to be macerated by hammers operated by a water-wheel. It would then be mixed with water in a vat by a 'vatman'. The Vatman would then use moulds to form thin spongy sheets. Wooden screw-press the sheets are pressed in piles of 144 and separated by layers of the felt the paper is then hung to dry. Dated 16th Century

A man is stirring the contents of a large vat as others pour the contents of a bucket into a large barrel. Woodcut.

Boeren Interieur, Jacob Louys (1620 -CA.1673), After Adriaen van Ostade, 1630 - 1673 print Farmers interior with a farmer's wife that cleans a boiler, two figures are working on the left in the background. paper etching farm (building) - AA - civic architecture: inside

Tallow chandler in apron and sleeve protectors making candles in a workshop. He dips a rack of wicks into molten wax. In the foreground, a barrel and rack of finished candles. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J. Rivington, London, 1821.

Worker at a wooden fence, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1902 print A worker with hat, seen on the back, standing in front of a wooden fence. At the bottom right of the top of a ladder and a pulley with hook on a rope. paper. pencil engraving working class, labourers. tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: rope

The Interior of Pitlessie Mill with a Man Sieving Corn, Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841, British, 1818, Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 7 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (19 x 29.2 cm), agricultural equipment, boys, caps, children, corn, dresses, genre subject, hats, interior, labor, laborers, ladder, machinery, mill, peasants, pulley, rural, sieve, stools, tam-o'-shanter, tools, women, workers, working, Europe, Fife, Pitlessie, Scotland, United Kingdom

The salt mines at Dürrenberg: men with lamps are sliding down into the mine. Etching.

Building workers working on Heiwerk, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print Two workers together place a pole in the ground. They both wear a hat. Left behind them a machine and another worker. paper working class, labourers. ramming, driving piles (~ building activities)

This image shows Louis XVI at the forge at Versailles. Louis XVI was an amateur blacksmith.

Paper maker in cap using a screen to remove a sheet of paper from a vat of fibers in suspension. Behind him, a large press, stack of papers, and sheets of paper drying from the ceiling. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J. Rivington, London, 1821.

PRINTING WORKSHOP WITH A RUNDRECHER AND A SCHOPRIGHTER, V. JANSON, 1848 - 1876 print Interior of a printer's workshop with a rock printer that inches a stone. For a cupboard with lithoicenes, a man is busy polishing lithostenes. There are prints against the wall, including a portrait of Alois Senefelder. On the right, a printer serves a sheet press. Behind him a man is busy inking a copper plate. paper. cardboard tools, implements of printer. printer. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

Doubling flax yarn, Marshalls Flax Mill, Leeds, Yorkshire. Engraving, London, 1843.

Cai Lun (simplified Chinese: 伦; traditional Chinese: 倫; pinyin: Cài Lún; Wade-Giles: Ts'ai Lun) (ca. 50 CE - 121), courtesy name Jingzhong (敬仲), was a Chinese eunuch and political official. He is traditionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper (as opposed to papyrus). Although early forms of paper had existed in China since the 2nd century BCE, he was responsible for the first significant improvement and standardization of paper-making by adding essential new materials into its composition.

A man is working at a barrel as a young boy carries a box. Woodcut.

The General Post-Office; Letter-bag hoist, 1844. Worker at the main post office at St Martin's Le Grand in London, using a hoist: 'for raising bags of letters into the Ship Letter-office above'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.

Local carpenter's workshop. Engraving, London, 1876.

'A Brewhouse', 1747. Artist: Unknown

1. The fellow 'prentices at their looms Date: 1747

Regency cabinet maker in his workshop. The room has tools, saws on the wall, with cabinet, chest, chair and other furniture in production. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J. Rivington, London, 1821.

Crafts, 1903 - 1919 print Leaf with 4 performances of a bank worker, a painter, a blacksmith and a wagon maker. Numbered at the top right: No. 155. Publisher: The BEPRITER: Haarlem paper letterpress printing crafts and industries. craft-production, skilled handiwork. smith, blacksmith. painter at work, in his studio

Carpenter points to the drill he has in his hand, Jan Luyken, 1711 print Amsterdam paper etching / letterpress printing boring, drilling, piercing (industrial processes). tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: drill

Illustration depicting a rag warehouse in Paris, France. Dated 19th century

The Wine Press - crushing the grapes, circa 1890

Beaming hides for production of shoe leather: USA. From 'Harper's New Monthly Magazine', 1885.

Vernisstokerij, Herman Heijenbrock (Possible), 1881 - 1925 drawing Varnish rider with linseed oil and resin. A man stirs with a stick in a flat pan to a stew above which a hood. On the left is a bucket and a metal can. Handwritten text about varnish distillery on the back. Netherlands paper. chalk writing (processes) fire, oven, furnace ~ interior of industrial structure. chemical industry Netherlands

An engraving depicting a building labourer sifting material by throwing it at a screen. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting a hatter's workshop. Dated 19th century

The Miller in his Mill, 1824. William Henry Hunt

Hand spinning, carding and roving. The wire 'cards' or 'combs' are in the left foreground. Illustration based on Richard Guest. Dated 1848.

'A Surrey Water-Mill', mid-late 19th century. Creator: Unknown.

Curing herring by salting and packing into barrels. From 'Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man', London, c1850.

Coopering: Trussing machine for making barrels. Engraving 1869.

An engraving of Brewing: Filling barrels with beer from vats. 1841

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