The Wheelwright

A wheelwright built wheels, especially wooden ones, made from oak, elm and hickory. He often worked in or near a blacksmith shop. There’s a new apprentice at the blacksmith shop that is learning how the two trades depend on one another.

It’s a noisy soundtrack coming out of the wooden doors – a steady clanging of the hammer, handsaws cutting timber and tap tapping of the chisel.

Outside the horses are snorting, hooves stomping and harnesses jingling.