The Cooper's Craft

Antique furniture produced in eighteenth-century Williamsburg serves as patterns for work produced today in Colonial Williamsburg's restored Hay's...

Explains the role of the blacksmith in colonial America, and includes a demonstration of the tools and skills used to turn metal into farm...

This is Ivor Noel Hume's four-year archaeological discovery of Martin's Hundred Plantation, a seventeenth-century plantation that supplied many of...

This is a story of remarkable generosity and considerable personal participation, chronicled here through archival photos and film, a narrative drawn...

VHS tape gives you a video tour of the historic Williamsburg Colonial area as well as Yorktown and Jamestown. Plan your vacation stops in advance!

The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic...

Marvel as skilled craftspeople transform white oak logs into finished baskets.

Colonial Williamsburg's curators, conservators, archaeologists, and historic tradespeople pool their expertise to reveal the merits of early southern...

Experience the pride and precision that went into every eighteenth-century instrument made in colonial America. Each part is handmade and carefully...

While exhibiting their crafts, the cabinetmaker, cooper, carpenter, and basket maker of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades discuss the...

While explaining the trade of printing, this docudrama relates the importance of the printer as a communicator of news, information, and learning...

In the eighteenth century, tradesmen passed along their skills and knowledge, the art and mystery of their trades to their apprentices. With...