History of Woodworking joints
Many of the best quality furniture and joinery of today still uses woodworking joints that have been used for centuries.
Any joinery that we make uses mortise and tenon joints, a woodworking joint that have been around for over 7000 years.
Mortise and tenon joints have been around since the Neolithic Era. They have also been used all over the world. Archaeologists have discovered these impressive joints in the oldest wooden constructions known to humankind, a set of wooden water wells from 5,600 and 4,900 B.C.E. Mortise and tenon joints have also been discovered in the ruins of Chinese houses along the Silk Road where beams and frames were made to interlock without using fasteners and glues. Mortise and tenon joints typically need no manual fixings. Once glued and wedged or draw bored with dowels they will last year's and years.
Another woodworking joint still regularly used to this day, typically in the finest quality furniture is the dovetail joint. This joint has been found on ancient Egyptian coffins from 3000BC.
