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FURNITURE MAKERS |
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Vernacular furniture was the product of the full range of makers. Those that made furniture for their own needs using the skills and materials they had to hand. Then professional makers varying from the small one man concerns in remote villages to businesses in the towns with master, cabinet makers and apprentices. |
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Both these chairs were made by locals for their own use. The Sutherland by an Assynt shepherd and the Caithness by a plough maker from Helmsdale. |
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George Hugh Mackay was a furniture maker and house carpenter working from this tiny workshop at West Strathan, Melness nr Tongue and the far north coast of Sutherland. Here he answered the needs of the local community repairing and fitting house joinery, creating furniture for the locals and finally making their coffins when they died. |
