Shingle weaver

"Shingler" redirects here. For the community in the United States, see Shingler, Georgia.
View of shingle weaver Floyd W. Williams clipping shingles - Lester Shingle Mill, Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon.
A shingle weaver "weaving" shingles into bundles.

A shingle weaver (US) or shingler[1] (UK) is an employee of a wood products mill who engages in the creation of wooden roofing shingles or the closely related product known as "shakes."[2] In the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, historically the leading producer of this product, such shingles are generally made of Western Red Cedar, an aromatic and disease-resistant wood indigenous to the area. The use of the term "weaver" for a shingle maker related to the way in which the workers fitted the shingles together in bundles but the meaning has extended to anyone who works in a shingle mill.[3]

  1. ^ Waters, Colin (2002). A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations, Newbury: Countryside Books, p. 257. ISBN 978-1-85306-794-5. The Oxford English Dictionary supports this usage and adds the meaning of one who applies shingles to houses.
  2. ^ In general, shingles are thinner pieces of wood which have been sawed on both sides, while shake is thicker material that is rough split on one side and sawed on the other. Shake may also be rough split on both sides of the board, in which case it would not have been made by a "shingle weaver." See: Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau, "Frequently Asked Questions." Archived 2010-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ George Milton Janes, "The Shingle Weavers", The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, Vol. 11, no. 2. January 1921. 135. Print