The Woodwright's Shop
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 Professional Woodworking
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"Wood was arguably the most valuable natural resource utilized by the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. Wood was a primary... component of tools, housing, household implements, modes of transportation, containers, and scaffolding.... Wood was used for dyes, waterproofing materials, and pipes; it provided the sole source of energy for cooking, heating, smelting, and firing clay."
Roman woodworkers practiced an ars, making them neither unskilled nor artists, but skilled craftsmen. Generally the woodworker was a slave, freedman, or freeborn, landless plebeian. Daedalus is counted as the first woodworker.
