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Compagnons
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Paul Dubois's toolbox
Tools for felling and cutting wood
Tracing tools
Shaping tools
Other tools
Regional diversity
Collections of tools
Trees into houses
From the forest to the worksite
The carpenter's art
Marks and symbols
Examples
Historic wooden frameworks
Wooden houses
Portrait of the Swedish carpenter Mikaela Humble
Hammer
Portrait of the Picard carpenter Paul Dubois
Scribe, pencil and awl
Squaring off
Bisaiguë (Mortising axe)
The carpenters guild in Germany
Initiation and compagnons’ masterpieces
Meetings of carpenters from Europe and around the world
Portrait of the Saxon carpenter Axel Weller
Paul Dubois's toolbox
Compagnonnage in France
Chancery building, Blois
French Ministry of Culture and Communication
Portrait of Mourad Manesse, carpenter from Isère