Materials
Properties, origins, processing, and appropriate applications.
LEMATO Werklexikon
Understand materials, techniques, and crafts.
An editorial place for origins, properties, working methods, and the people who turn knowledge into work.
Materials
Limewood
Limewood is a pale hardwood with a generally fine and even structure. Its workability and restrained growth-ring contrast have made it an important material for sculpture, relief and detailed carving over many centuries.
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Materials
Wood
Wood is the lignified tissue grown by trees and shrubs. As a material, it combines structural capacity, workability and a visible biological structure that varies with species, growth and drying.
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Working methods, tools, and the knowledge behind a good result.
Crafts
Professions, histories, and current practice in workshops and ateliers.