historic trades

Detail of bookbinder's wheels on display at the Bookbinder's Shop.

An Historic Trades gardener at work in the Colonial Garden.

An Historic Trades shoemaker works in the Shoemaker's Shop in the winter season.

An Historic Trades tinsmith works in the Tin Shop on a late fall afternoon.

A tailor uses scissors to cut fabric along suit pattern lines on a table in the Tailor's Shop.

A tailor uses his scissors to cut fabric on a table in the Tailor's Shop.

An historic trades tailor discusses fabric choices with a customer.

Still life of a drawer filled with trim material in the Tailor's Shop:

Still life of a drawer filled with tools and supplies in the Tailor's Shop.

Still life of tools and supplies needed for a tailor to make cloth covered buttons: scissors, thread, cloth, and buttons.

A still life of fabric and trim available in the Tailor's Shop.

Men's and women's wigs smartly styled by Colonial Williamsburg wigmakers stand on a table in the Wigmaker's Shop.

Close-up of the hands of a weaver using his spinning wheel to spin thread in the Weaver's Shop.

Historic Trades carpenters and Historic Area interpreters work together to raise the tobacco barn at Great Hopes Plantation.

Portrait of an historic trades silversmith.

In the Peyton Randolph Kitchen, a Foodways Journeywoman cuts a lemon on a work table filled with a cooked ham and a variety of side dishes.

Tools at rest in the Historic Trades Cooper's Shop.

A junior interpreter washes a pot in the Governor's Palace kitchen.

A junior interpreter planes a wooden board in the Joinery which is also known as the Taliaferro-Cole Shop. This building is one of the 88 original buildings in the Historic Area.

Interpreters use a horse-drawn plow in a field in the Historic Area as a carriage passes in the street behind them.

Kiln firing at the Brickyard.

An Historic Trades farmer inspects tobacco plants for worms.

Historic Trades farmers plow a field at Great Hopes Plantation using a team of oxen while a coachman drives the Wythe chariot along the road behind them.

In Historic Trades: An Apprentice Blacksmith works at a forge in the James Anderson Blacksmith Shop & Public Armoury.

In Historic Trades: An Apprentice Wigmaker at her work table in the Wigmaker's Shop.