Japanese Joinery
About this book
Japanese Joinery by Berlin-based woodworker Dorian Bracht was published by GMC Publications in 2024. The 176-page English clothbound hardcover documents more than fifty joints, from long-established carpentry connections to recent Japanese innovations, with photographs of complete and deconstructed examples, hand-drawn technical illustrations, and notes on history, use, variation, and construction. A substantial section covers Japanese woodworking tools, marking, saws, chisels, planes, and sharpening.
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For furniture and product design students, the book is both an inspiration source and a practical atlas of how timber can be joined without metal hardware. It supports drawing joints, understanding tool logic, and seeing joinery as a design language rather than only a craft skill. On a university reading list it belongs with Japanese Design, materials, and furniture making.
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