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• Furniture making -- Amateurs' manuals
• Furniture making -- Early works to 1800
• Furniture making -- England
• Furniture making -- Equipment and supplies
• Furniture making -- Juvenile fiction
• Furniture making -- Periodicals
• Furniture making -- Prices
• Furniture making -- United States
• Chair caning
• Furniture -- Repairing
• Furniture finishing

• Furniture building
• Furniture -- Building

• Furniture a girl can make (Gillum Book Co., 1940), by William W. Klenke and Lulu W. Gillum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rough-part sizes needed from lumber for manufacturing furniture and kitchen cabinets (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1982), by Philip A. Araman and Pa.) Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cutting yields from standard hardwood lumber grades when gang ripping (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 1980), by Hiram Hallock and Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• When times are good again for furniture and kitchen cabinet makers (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1983), by Hugh W. Reynolds and Pa.) Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic (Davis Williams company, 1914), by Paul D. Otter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand made furniture and how to make it ... (Hand made furniture shop, 1910), by Albert G. Glidden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs (J.B. Lippincott Company, 1922), by Percy A. Wells and John Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparative yields of furniture parts cut from short bolts and conventional logs of Florida red maple (Division of Forestry, Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 1973), by J. B. Huffman and Florida. Division of Forestry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selecting panel materials by furniture and cabinet manufacturers (Agricultural Experiment Station, Michigan State University, 1970), by Otto Suchsland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The carpenters, joiners, cabinet makers, and gilders' companion : containing rules and instructions in the art of carpentry, joining, cabinet making, and gilding : veneering, inlaying, varnishing and polishing, dying and staining wood, ivory, &c. : the best methods of preparing glue, cements, and compositions, and a variety of valuable receipts : with illustrations showing the various methods of dove-tailing, mortice and tenonding, &c. &c. &c. (Brodie & Middleton, 1876), by F. Reinnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabinetwork and joinery comprising designs and details of construction with 2,021 working drawings and twelve coloured plates (Cassell and Co., 1907), by Paul N. Hasluck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The wood doctor's Rx (Brook Forest Products Center, Dept. of Forest Products, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988), by Eugene M. Wengert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Furniture making and cabinet work (D. Van Nostrand, 1949), by B. W. Pelton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seat weaving with splints. (College Station, Texas : Texas Agricultural Extension Service, [1954], 1954), by Bernice Claytor, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 99 one evening projects ... (Home Craftsman Pub., 1947), by Harry J. Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Furniture mechanics : framed cabinet furniture (Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1967), by Carl A. Eckelman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Possible uses of improved woods and wood-base plastics in the furniture industry (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 1944), by Alfred J. Stamm, University of Wisconsin, and Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cabinet maker : a practical guide to the principles of design, and the economical and sound construction of household furniture, furnishings, and fittings : together with treatises on the designing and setting out of mouldings, and of ornamental or cut-wood work (Ward, Lock, Bowden, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg: Giving Attention to the City's Chief Craftsmen in the Furniture Way; And to Their Tools & Methods of Working, by Johannes Heuvel, ed. by Thomas K. Ford, contrib. by Mills Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Journeymen cabinet and chair-makers Philadelphia book of prices. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Ormrod and Conrad, at Franklin's Head, No. 41, Chesnut-Street., M.DCCXCV, [1795]) (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Furniture designing and draughting : notes on the elementary forms, methods of construction and dimensions of common articles of furniture. (William T. Comstock, 1907), by Alvan Crocker Nye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial furniture (Bruce Pub. Co., 1935), by John Gerald Shea and Paul Nolt Wenger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antique reproductions for the home craftsman. (Whittlesey House, 1950), by Raymond F. Yates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mission furniture, how to make it. pt. 1-3 . (Popular mechanics Co., 1909), by H. H. Windsor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Cabinet maker and upholsterer's drawing book (Printed for the author by T. Bensley :, 1793), by Thomas Sheraton, James Caldwall, George Walker, James Newton, A. Thornthwaite, Levi Wayland, J. S. Jordan, Garnet Terry, James Matthews, and Thomas Bensley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The case of the Joyners Company, against the importation of manufactured cabinet-work from the East-Indies. ([London : s.n., 1710?]), by England) Joyners Company (London (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The London Chair-Makers' and Carvers' Book of Prices for Workmanship, As Regulated and Agreed To by a Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen (third edition; London: T. Brettell, 1829), by Committee of Master Chair-Manufacturers and Journeymen (London, England) (multiple formats at Google)

• Thurston "hard-to-get" materials (Anoka, Minnesota : Thurston Supply Company, [1938], 1938), by Minn.) Thurston Supply Company (Anoka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Upholstery spring and accessories manufacturing industry (United States Government Printing Office, 1934), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ethel Morton at Rose House (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., 1915), by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Furniture manufacturer and artisan. (Grand Rapids, Mich., 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Furniture manufacturer and artisan. (Grand Rapids Furniture Record Co., 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Porcelain breakfast furniture assembling industry (United States Government Printing Office, 1934), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Porcelain breakfast furniture assembling industry (United States Government Printing Office, 1935), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Porcelain breakfast furniture assembling industry (United States Government Printing Office, 1934), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Porcelain breakfast furniture assembling industry (United States Government Printing Office, 1935), by United States National Recovery Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seat weaving (The Manual arts press, 1917), by L. Day Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Repairing chair seats with cane (University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University, College of Agriculture, [date of publication not identified]), by Sanna D. Black and Mary C. Saylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seat Weaving, by L. Day Perry (Gutenberg ebook)

• Easy does it furniture restoration (C. E. Tuttle Co., 1962), by William Farwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woodworking and furniture repair; repairs and utilities. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1947), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• The furniture doctor; being practical information for everybody about the care, repair, and refinishing of furniture, with easy to follow directions and tricks of the trade that use commonly available materials, all presented with the author's usual hilarious anecdotes in the Yankee manner and more about his infamous Uncle George. (Doubleday, 1962), by George Grotz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peter Hunt's Workbook: With Text and Pictures (Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis, c1945), by Peter Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems of the finishing room; a reference and formula manual for furniture finishers, woodworkers, builders, interior decorators, manual training departments, etc. (The Periodical publishing company, 1916), by Walter K. Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The furniture doctor; being practical information for everybody about the care, repair, and refinishing of furniture, with easy to follow directions and tricks of the trade that use commonly available materials, all presented with the author's usual hilarious anecdotes in the Yankee manner and more about his infamous Uncle George. (Doubleday, 1962), by George Grotz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic (Davis Williams company, 1914), by Paul D. Otter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical guide to French polishing : including furniture polishing, graining, staining, varnishing, japanning, wax and dull polishing, and stencilling. Together with instructions for repairing and matching furniture, buhlwork, inlays, etc. Interspersed with numerous practical recipes relating to the various processes (E. Menken,) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Refinishing wood furniture (University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, 1960), by Willma Shryack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical information for cabinet-makers and furniture men (Industrial Publication Co., 1899), by John Phin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical hints for furniture men : relating to all kinds of finishing, with full directions therefor, varnishes, polishes, stains for wood, dyes for wood, gilding and silvering, receipts for the factory, lackers, metals, marbles, &c., pictures, engravings, &c., miscellaneous. (Furniture Trade Journal, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Furniture finishing manual. (North Carolina State College, 1956) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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