furnituremaking

furniture +‎ making

furnituremaking (uncountable)

1. The making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis; the business includes woodworking and (in some cases) upholstering.
   • 1992, Morrison H. Heckscher, Leslie Greene Bowman, American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament‎, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 133:

     Furnituremaking was one of the most universal of colonial enterprises. Not an industry susceptible to supervision from England, it was carried on domestically in small shops by no more than a handful of craftsmen at any one time.

   • 1993, Thomas Max Safley, Leonard N. Rosenband, The Workplace Before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800‎, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 18:

     By 1810 the federal census recorded a profusion of furnituremaking, leather manufacture, tool- and implement-making, woodenware production, metalworking, hatmaking, clockmaking, brewing, distilling, boot- and shoemaking, and a variety of other occupations in rural areas […]

   • 2003, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, edited by E. Richard McKinstry, Guide to the Winterthur Library: The Joseph Downs Collection and the Winterthur Archives‎, Winterthur Museum, →ISBN, page 12:

     The unidentified compiler of this account book may have been John Hewitt, a furnituremaker from Savannah, Georgia. Accounts relate to furnituremaking and carpentry. There are drawings of furniture, including a bookcase and table.

• cabinetmaking

• cabinetmaker, furnituremaker