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ARTS 327: Woodworking: The Table

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This guide provides a variety of resources to help you learn about the history and art of woodworking and furniture making, and fine art more generally. Explore the tabs on the left to help you understand these media's terminology and history, as well as suggestions for databases and websites about particular artists and important works of wood, and books we have here at Gould Library or online.

 

 

Wooden Tables Around the World

Oval wooden table at sunrise, slats of table top covered in dew

Image credit: Derek Harper CC-BY-SA

Wooden table and chairs over the Mekong at sunrise in Don Det Si Phan Don Laos

Image credit: Basile Morin CC-BY-SA

Crude, ancient wooden table made of three wide slats, and two wooden benches made of rough hewn logs.

Image credit: Pudelek CC-BY-SA

Close up image of four reddish brown, scarred planks making up the top of a table

Image credit: Prismo345 CC-BY-SA

Close up on side angle of routered gray table top edge.

Image credit: Deavmi CC-BY-SA

Long oak table with delicate carved legs and feet.

Image credit: Tangerineduel CC-BY

Black and white image of one woman and six children sitting around a wooden picnic bench, circa mid-60s

Image credit: GeorgeLouis, CC-BY-SA

Intricately carved circular wooden table made out of hundreds of pieces of different colored wood.

Image Credit: S. Woźniak, CC-BY-SA

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