Asian countries like China and Japan would often use such intricate designs that trying to assemble them yourself today, would be like trying to assemble one of these 3D puzzle toys. Just as with art styles, culture and fashion, each region of the world had their own joinery styles. It also allows use to determine what, if any repairs may have be been performed during the restoration process. We are able narrow down the time period for most antique wooden furniture, structures, equipment, and sculptures. Simply by looking at the quality of the cuts and the techniques used to assemble the piece, to the style of joinery and the materials used to hold parts together. While this means that we may have lost many of the skills of old, it does make it easier to identify the potential era a piece of carpentry was made in. Sadly this is a skill that has been lost to time, thanks to our reliance on modern tools and machinery and less on an individual’s skill.Īs we entered the industrial age, we transitioned away from hand crafted carpentry, to more mass produced machine based manufacturing. Many of these carpenters were skilled enough to even be able to create works of art without the need for nails, wedges or bindings. Skilled carpenters of old were able to craft beautiful structures and objects all by hand. Enter joinery – various joining methods that utilize shapes, wedges, and bindings to apply enough force/pressure to hold two or more different pieces of wood together. Ever since we first started to build structures and objects out of multiple pieces of wood, we have had to find innovative ways of binding the pieces together.
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