We have to date over 200 names for the Makers Database. This includes: wrights, cabinetmakers, house carpenters, joiners and other timber associated workers. Our data so far has been of workers in the nineteenth century from Caithness and Sutherland. As time and energy allows us we will extend both the area and the period.We hope to have this material entered on the computer by the end of the summer and then transformed onto a searchable CD.

DIRECTOR AWARDED A CHURCHILL FELLOWSHIP

Dave Hutchinson was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for 2001, to research the influence of early settlers from Scotland on New Zealand’s vernacular furniture.

He spent two months in new Zealand and visited a number of museums and private collections in South and North Island. Particular study was made of the colections in the Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin and the House of Memories in Waipu.

Extracts from Dave’s report are posted on the website:

A STUDY OF EARLY MAKERS AND THEIR FURNITURE

A SELECTION OF MAKERS

THE OTAGO COLLECTION

THE OTAGO AND SCHIBERCROSS CHAIR

THE HOUSE OF MEMORIES WAIPU

SCOTLANDS INFLUENCE ON THE HERITAGE OF VERNACULAR FURNITURE IN NEW ZEALAND