Cover of The Quiet Machine by Sarah Whitfield

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The Quiet Machine

Illustrated silhouette portrait for Sarah Whitfield by Sarah Whitfield

Four apprentices, one year, and how a trade survives in the small habits of a workshop.

Published
November 3, 2020
Publisher
Ironwood Books
Pages
176
ISBN
978-1-946001-05-5

A workshop is loud, and then one day it is not. Whitfield follows four apprentices through a year in a Sheffield training shop, and finds in their small habits — how they hold a file, when they stop to measure — the way a trade survives.

A quiet book about a loud place.

Illustrated silhouette portrait for Sarah Whitfield

About the author

Sarah Whitfield

Sheffield apprentice trainer writing about how skill moves between pairs of hands.

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