| Blog series by naomi weiss | updated 39 days ago | 3 parts | 1222 reads | 8 comments total |
Part 1: Moxon, Nicholas Owen, and the Gunpowder Plot
Here’s another one from the archive, but here’s a better link with pictures (i try not to read anything that doesn’t have pictures!)Every once in a while, i look for tenuous links between my research on Early Modern England and traditional woodworking. Naturally, i was so stoked to see Christopher Schwarz’s work on Moxon, as well as his edition of the section on joinery. Other bloggers have written about Moxon, and Schwarz seems to have have ignited the woodworking wor...
Part 2: A DIY Shoutout to My Pepys (Yeah, it's Pronounced 'Peeps')
Once again, thanks to Cardinal Wolsey’s Today in History and Phil Gyford’s excellent online version of Samuel Pepys’s diary, the worlds of woodworking and early modern England come together. Hold on to your buckled hats! The grumpy guy you see here is Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703) the famous diarist. He was known for writing about the Great Fire in London, and for writing about his sexpcapades (ewe) in code so his wife could never bust him. If you’re curious (and i donR...
Part 3: The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
This is the famous poem that Chris Schwarz mentioned once; i dug it up and appended whatever notes i could find on it. For the full entry, click here.
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