Taylor's-Cooperage
Black Creek Pioneer Village-Toronto
Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, and breakers.Everything a cooper produces is referred to collectively as cooperage.
Nancy Blach 21/07/2009 20:25
Very interesting.Nice work.
nancy
anthony ryan 12/07/2009 19:46
This is another great black and picture,I love the mood of the picture of a by gone age.You have captured the esance of the image beautifully and the composition is excellent.I never know a cask maker was called a Cooper.We learn more every day.Best wishes.
Anthony
Sally Dunn 11/07/2009 12:00
What is a cooperage? Is it an old shop? Nice picture with all the barrels lined up.Sally