Barrel-making (cooper), pottery-making, pottery firing in the kiln in the 1820s
Channel: TheStoryOfUsHumans
Date: 2018-07-23

Part 11 (of 15 ) of Everyday life in New England in the Early 1800s: 

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For a demonstration see
Old Sturbridge Village Cooper 
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASuPzqGe3c

The modern process is much the same, see
Goosecross: Barrel Building at Demptos Cooperage
http://vimeo.com/11179342

For a demo see
Potter at Old Sturbridge Village
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwKKZ3YLoN0
by Minh-Triet Nguyen