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Woodworking is the process of building, making or carving something using wood.
SkillsAlong with stone, mud, and animal parts, wood was certainly one of the first materials worked by primitive man. Indeed, the development of civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
Among early finds of wooden tools are the worked sticks from Kalambo Falls, Clacton-on-Sea and Lehringen . The spears from Schöningen (Germany) provide some of the first examples of wooden hunting gear. Flint tools were used for carving. Since neolithic times, carved wooden vessels are known, for example from the linearbandkeramic wells at Kückhofen and Eythra . Examples of bronze age wood-carving include trees worked into coffins from northern Germany and Denmark, and wooden folding-chairs. The site of Fellbach-Schmieden , Germany has provided fine examples of wooden animal statues from the Iron Age. Wooden idols of La TèneLa Tene culture La Tene is a village near the Neuenburger See, also called Lac du Neuchatel, a lake in Switzerland. It is both an archaeological site and the eponymous site for the late Iron Age La Tene culture. The Site of La Tene In 1857 prolonged droug-date are known from a sanctuary at the source of the SeineThis article is about the river in France; it should not be confused with the Senne, a much smaller river that flows through Brussels. For other rivers named Seine see Seine River (disambiguation). A seine is also a kind of fishing net. The Seine (pronoun, France.
Two ancient civilizations to use woodworking were the Egyptians and the Chinese. Woodworking is depicted in many ancient Egyptian drawings. Some Ancient Egyptian furnitureFurniture is the collective term for the movable objects which support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, and hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture is used to hold or contain smaller objects suc such as chairs have been preserved in tombs. The metal used for woodworking by the Egyptians was probably bronze or even copper, as ironworking was not developed until much later.
Similarly the progenitors of Chinese woodworking are considered to be Lu Ban (魯班) and his wife Lady Yun. Lu Ban is said to have brought the plane, chalkline, and other tools to China. His teachings are supposedly left behind in the book Lu Ban Jing (魯班經, manuscript of Lu Ban), although it was written 1500 years after his life. This book is filled largely with descriptions of dimensions to use for building various items, such as flower pots, tables, temples, etc. It also contains extensive instructions about Feng ShuiFeng Shu ( literally, wind and water pronounced "fung shuway"), which originated over 7,000 years ago, is the ancient practice of placement to achieve harmony with the environment. Traditional or classical Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese proto/ethnoscienc, the ancient Chinese practice of geomancyGeomancy (from the Latin geo, "Earth," mancy "prophecy") is a method of divination to interpret markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when you toss them. It was explained as divination (in the same sentence with pyromancy and hydromancy) in. It mentions almost nothing of the intricate glueless and nailless joinery for which Chinese furniture was so famous.