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Small Carpentry Workshops from the First Decades of the 20th Century. Tools and Implements

Summary/Abstract: The industrial era together with accompanying it industrial processes (mass production, social transformations) led to disappearance of traditional methods of furniture manufacturing. Small carpentry workshops were operating in the first decades of the 20th century only in the rural areas or in cooperation with furniture industry manufacturers, being the enclaves continuing old craftsmanship models of manufacturing furniture and other wooden objects. Those models included both technological processes as well as contents connected with traditional ethos of work. The following article emphasizes such elements of traditional ethos of work as: ways of modeling the workshop’s space, mutual relations between a craftsman and tools he used as well as the individualization of an object manufacturing process. Simultaneously, the article draws attention to the influence and importance of companies manufacturing tools and craftsmen offering their services in the area of Silesian province, briefly presenting brands that were especially popular at that time. The final part of the work signalizes interpretational problems connected with preserved until now old carpentry tools and implements. Being no longer in practical use, they become nothing more than unwanted junkies but they may also be considered kinds of memorabilia or elements of cultural heritage.

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