Crafts

Woodworking

Citation Formats

General Reference

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. "Woodworking." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/woodworking.

APA Style

Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas. (n.d.). Woodworking. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/woodworking

BibTeX

@misc{home,craftsandhobbiesatlas-woodworking,
  author = {Home, Crafts and Hobbies Atlas},
  title = {Woodworking},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://home.interactiveatlas.org/crafts/woodworking},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The craft of shaping wood into useful and beautiful things: furniture, cabinetry, carving, joinery and turning. One of the oldest of all human skills, developed to a high art in ancient Egypt and China, and still the gateway craft for most home workshops, where a few hand tools and a bench are enough to begin.

Facts

Craft Class

Wood 1

Earliest Evidence (Circa)

The oldest known worked wood is a set of shaped, notched sticks from Kalambo Falls in southern Africa, dated to roughly 476,000 years ago, older than Homo sapiens itself. 1

Origin

Documented as a developed craft in the ancient civilizations of Egypt and China, with joinery, carving and fine furniture surviving from both 1

Cross-Tradition Connections