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Wooden carpentry templates that belonged to William T. Sowers
Cultural Objects, Tools

Curved Wooden Carpentry Template Set

People
Maker/Creator: William T. Sowers
Date
1900-1925
Places
Floyd County
Material/Medium

wood

Specifications

Eight curved templates.

Description

Templates were often used in house building when repetitive, uniform measurements were required. William T. Sowers designed and cut these wooden templates for use in his early twentieth-century carpentry work in Floyd County.

Keywords
template, carpentry
Bio Sketch

In 1913-1914, master carpenter William Taylor Sowers (1847-1930) was the contractor and carpenter for the construction of the Nannie Harman Howard house, an impressive Georgian Revival home on East Main Street in Floyd.  Mr. Sowers’ tool chest, complete with wood planes and other carpentry tools was donated to the Gallery by his granddaughter, Rose Sumner.