To support themselves, the boys were taught tailoring and carpentry, making cassocks for the local clergy and furniture to be sold to the public.

In 1972, Joyce Hartwell set up a school on Avenue B to teach carpentry and plumbing to inner-city women.

Gante founded the first primary school in Mesoamerica, teaching Latin, Spanish, sewing, carpentry and knitting.

Jefferson's sons with Hemings were taught carpentry and the violin, but he seemed never to have treated them as his children either in public or in private.

His uncle did teach him carpentry and decorating - he's really very good with his hands, is Dan.

He wanted to start a woodwork class in Cossethay, to teach carpentry and joinery and wood-carving to the village boys, two nights a week.

He also teaches plumbing, electrical wiring and carpentry at a free technical school he started.

Those lacking in any talent were taught carpentry, blacksmithing, shoemaking and other trades useful to the military.

He was taught carpentry by the family butler; as an adult, Oppen found work as a carpenter and cabinetmaker.

Boys were taught farming, gardening and carpentry while girls learned sewing, washing, milking and horticulture, as well as training for domestic service.