EditorialA draw knife and shaving horse in the woodworking barn at Great Dixter House & Gardens in East Sussex, England, Oct. 1, 2019. (Andy Haslam/The New York Times)
EditorialMatch Holder, 1850-1900 The Tyrolean region of Switzerland and Austria specialised in producing small wooden trinkets which were mostly sold as souvenirs to tourists. The popularity of Cook's tours in the 1850s opened up the Alpine region of central Eu...
EditorialCoopered Jug, 1750-1800. This oak jug is typical of the type of household equipment which was used in ordinary houses in England for hundreds of years. It was probably made over 200 years ago. The cooper made containers for both dry and liquid goods. T...
EditorialGames Box, 1600-1700, Eger Work made by Johann Karl Haberstumpf and Adam Eck. The town of Eger in Bohemia (southern Germany) was the centre of a specialised type of woodworking in the 17th century. Here, craftsmen created detailed pictures, using layer...
EditorialMatch Holder, 1850-1900 The Tyrolean region of Switzerland and Austria specialised in producing small wooden trinkets which were mostly sold as souvenirs to tourists. The popularity of Cook's tours in the 1850s opened up the Alpine region of central Eu...
EditorialMatch Holder, 1850-1900 The Tyrolean region of Switzerland and Austria specialised in producing small wooden trinkets which were mostly sold as souvenirs to tourists. The popularity of Cook's tours in the 1850s opened up the Alpine region of central Eu...
EditorialCoopered Jug, 1750-1800. This oak jug is typical of the type of household equipment which was used in ordinary houses in England for hundreds of years. It was probably made over 200 years ago. The cooper made containers for both dry and liquid goods. T...
EditorialGames Box, 1600-1700, Eger Work made by Johann Karl Haberstumpf and Adam Eck. The town of Eger in Bohemia (southern Germany) was the centre of a specialised type of woodworking in the 17th century. Here, craftsmen created detailed pictures, using layer...
EditorialGames Box, 1600-1700, Eger Work made by Johann Karl Haberstumpf and Adam Eck. The town of Eger in Bohemia (southern Germany) was the centre of a specialised type of woodworking in the 17th century. Here, craftsmen created detailed pictures, using layer...
EditorialCoopered Jug, 1750-1800. This oak jug is typical of the type of household equipment which was used in ordinary houses in England for hundreds of years. It was probably made over 200 years ago. The cooper made containers for both dry and liquid goods. T...
EditorialCoopered Jug, 1750-1800. This oak jug is typical of the type of household equipment which was used in ordinary houses in England for hundreds of years. It was probably made over 200 years ago. The cooper made containers for both dry and liquid goods. T...
EditorialMatch Holder, 1850-1900 The Tyrolean region of Switzerland and Austria specialised in producing small wooden trinkets which were mostly sold as souvenirs to tourists. The popularity of Cook's tours in the 1850s opened up the Alpine region of central Eu...
EditorialGames Box, 1600-1700, Eger Work made by Johann Karl Haberstumpf and Adam Eck. The town of Eger in Bohemia (southern Germany) was the centre of a specialised type of woodworking in the 17th century. Here, craftsmen created detailed pictures, using layer...
EditorialNegative - Betley, Victoria, circa 1915, School boys and their teacher posed under a pine tree with carpentary tools and folding chairs made for the Red Cross during World War I. There is a chalked sign in front of the group reading 'Betley Sloyde clas...
EditorialTools Ax of iron with fragment of stem, Ax of iron with fragment of stem. The ax is cut open with four comma-shaped openings. Decorative lines have been dug into the house. one side is flat and the other is thickened. This type of ax is in line with th...
EditorialScrape from the wreck of the East India dealer Hollandia, Tools and instruments, woodworking, plane, fragm of smoothing plane, broken: curved front grip, back of the stock rounded, Annet, Dutch East India Company, Hollandia (ship), anonymous, Netherlan...