Antiques in the light of the development of the wood craft

As in the late Middle Ages, the guild system was created, wood craftsman had already begun to develop special skills. Böttcher, Bogner, joiners and carpenters were during the development of handicrafts in the general tendency to specialize in this. By the middle of the 18th Century have been even activities such as carpentry, turning, carving, veneering and cushions so valuable antiques today from various artisans executed.

Crucial to this specialization in the history of furniture manufacturing has been the increased demand for home furnishings, as well as the wish that this not only appropriate but also be decorative.

In the late 15th Century was the most important part of the household at the chest for the storage of clothes and valuables served. At this time developed a new design process which the old method, when the boards were only zusammengenagelt, was far superior. Until then the chest was a joint work of the carpenter and the blacksmith, the hinges and made in Eckverbände. The new cabinet was a frame-filling design - it had a bearing framework in which Füllbretter with Nutzapfen and wedges were fitted. The specialized carpenters craft, with saws, planers and working Beitel, was created. Based on this technique at the beginning of the 16th Century, starting from Italy, the Cabinet cabinets, with drawers and doors which were locked.

This cabinet cabinets developed soon too small, now estimated as a very antique artworks, which are no longer only for storage of valuables served. Due to the massive logging were disguised with tines held together furniture body from inferior, but stable heartwood, increasingly sophisticated veneer is applied. As early as 77 AD, incidentally, the Romans, Pliny the veneers as a way of economically valuable timber and economically deal recommended.

The desire of both wood craftsmen, as well as the client for more elaborate version has been met by the finest inlaid as marquetry, which could be produced Beitel wells in the core with different wood, according tailored pieces of wood have been filled. With this method were amazing, three-dimensional effects deception.

In the antique furniture of today reflect the development and innovations in the wood craft of bygone days.

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