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Pottery's
wokshop, Eure, France, earliy 1900'
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An important
part of the expertise needed to appreciate materials and master techniques
was-and still is-transmitted orally in the workshop, and can be acquired
only through experience. But these handbooks do set forth the essentials,
systematized, classified, and stripped of the mystery surrounding professional
secrets and tricks of the trade. Literally hundreds of them, published in
the Encyclopédie Roret,1 cover an enormous range of occupations-manuals
for piano tuners, starch and vermicelli makers, land surveyors, hosiers
and stocking manufacturers, shoemakers and cobblers, harness makers and
saddlers, brewers, embroiderers, tanners of chamois or morocco leather,
furriers, farm bailiffs, makers of parchment, candles, wax objects and scaling
wax, hatters, charcutiers, carpenters, wheelwrights and carriage makers,
coppersmiths and lime-burners, to cite only some of the major headings (translated)
at the beginning of the alphabet!
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