The Adze, The Drawknife, and The Mocotaugan By Camille Coy It’s always exciting to see the similarities in woodworking tools across cultures and millennia. Working wood is truly a uniting human quality. I’ve always thought woodworkers (particularly hand tool users) would make good time travelers—they’d be able to seamlessly slip into a profession almost anywhere they ended up. Adze The …
Woodworking and The Ancient World! A Look at The Exciting History of Woodworking in The Middle East
The Fertile Crescent At risk of sounding overly dramatic, I’m beginning this article with a brief look to the very dawn of civilization. The fertile crescent lay nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and in its rich soil the seeds for the future grandeur of the Middle East were planted. ancient Egypt, Lebanon, and Iran all emerged from the …