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x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
Carpentry and Furniture Factories.
Iu many parts of the country carpentry as a handiwork
employment is very general, and on every farm there is usually one man
able to undertake, at any rate, rough carpenters’ work and the mending
of any agricultural implements that may have got out of order. In
some provinces it was the general thing in former times in the long
winter-evenings, when no outdoor work was possible, for the men to
devote their attention to some form of handiwork, such as the making
of wooden shoes, chairs, baskets, and other domestic utensils, in like
manner as the women were spinning and weaving.
This carpentry work was facilitated very materially by the
plentiful supply of cheap wood, e. g. oak, birch, alder, and deal. By degrees,
this domestic industry has given place to a more extensive one,
inasmuch as factories have been established in many places for the
fabrication of common furniture and of the wooden fittings up of houses,
such as doors, window-frames, etc. One product of this industry that
has found a not inconsiderable market abroad, especially in warm
countries with a poor supply of native timber, is complete houses of
wood; a sale for them, especially as summer residences, is also found in
Sweden itself. — In the furniture and wooden-house industry the same
improved taste has made its mark that has been in evidence in
architecture and art-industry generally during the last twenty years.
The exports of carpenters’ work in 1900 were valued at 11,392,000
kronor (à l-io shilling); that sent to England at 6,300,000 kronor, to
Germany at 3,147,000 kronor, to Denmark at 577,000 kronor, etc.
Carpenters’ work and furniture-making is done best in the Göteborg
och Bohus Län, next come the city and Län of Stockholm and the
Jönköping Län. The following are the largest factories: Ekman’s New
Carpentry joint-stock Co. at Sundbyberg, near Stockholm, Bark &
Warburg’s, and the Lindholmen Factory at Gothenburg.
In 1900, there were altogether 320 carpentry and furniture
factories, employing 10,103 hands and with a turnout valued at 20,044,000
kronor. These figures do not include the factories turning out machines
(20 in number, with 612 hands and a turnout valued at 1,086,000
kronor); these are grouped under Machines and Implements.
Other Manufactures.
Cooperies. Casks of various shapes are a requisite for transport
in many industries, for instance of butter, snuff, cement, herring, spirits,
soap, etc. The manufacture of casks has therefore been made a special
industry in modern times. Thorium’s cask-factory at Uddevalla is one
of the largest, though the turnout varies very much, according to the
herring harvest. There were 25 cooperies and cask-factories in Sweden
in 1900, with 484 workmen and a production value of 802,000 kronor.
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