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vii. manufacturing industries.

possible, for the men to devote their attention to some form of handiwork,
or "sloyd", such as the making of wooden shoes, chairs, baskets, and other
domestic utensils, just as the women spent such time in spinning and
weaving.

This carpentry was facilitated by the plentiful supply of cheap wood,
oak, birch, alder, and white-wood. By degrees, this domestic industry has
given place to an extensive manufacturing industry, inasmuch as
factories have been established in many places for the manufacture of common
furniture and of the wooden fittings 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, are complete houses of wood, a market for which, especially
as summer residences, is also found in Sweden itselt.

In the furniture- and wooden-house industry, the same improved taste
can be remarked that has been in evidence in architecture and art-industry
generally during the last twenty years.

The export of joiner’s work proper, in 1912, amounted to 13 935 000
kronor, in addition to planed deals, packing-case material, staves, etc.,
to a value of 38-9 million kronor. Of the first-named, the exports to
England amounted to 7 716 000 kronor; to Russia 2 263 000 and to Denmark
641 000 kronor, etc.

Joinery work and furniture-making flourish best in Jönköping Län,
after which come the Läns of Kalmar, Östergötland, Göteborg och
Bohus, Södermanland and the city and Län of Stockholm. Among the
largest joinery-factories may be mentioned: Åtvidabergs snickerifabrik
(Snickerifabrik* = joinery-factory), Åtvidaberg; Stegeholms
Snickerifabrik, Västervik, and Carl Fredrikssons Träförädlingsahtiebolag,
Katrineholm.

In 1912, there were in Sweden 565 joinery- and furniture-factories,
employing * a total of 10 464 hands and turning out goods to a value of
30 830 000 kronor. These figures, however, do not include the
joinery-factories turning out machines, which are 33 in number, employ 779 hands
and manufacture goods to a value of 1 633 000 kronor. In Swedish
statistics, these last-named factories are included in the Machines and
Implements group.

Other Manufactures.

Cooperies. In some industries, the demand for bulging casks, such
as kegs and drittles, is very considerable; for example, in the butter and
margarine-, snuff-, cement-, herring-, spirit-, and soap trades, etc., and,
in our own days, this want is supplied by factory-made goods. The
largest cask-factories are the Uddevalla Tunnfabriks- och
Trävaruaktie-bolag at Uddevalla, whose output, however, depends very much on the
annual catch of herring, and the Åstorps Tunnfabrik in Kristianstad Län.

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