Editing Joinery (section)

==History==
[[File:10 peintures annamites représentant les métiers au Tonkin ("Charpentier - dessin annamite").jpg|thumb|Joinery in Vietnam in 1923]]
Many traditional wood joinery techniques use the distinctive material properties of [[wood]], often without resorting to mechanical fasteners or adhesives. While every culture of woodworking has a joinery tradition, wood joinery techniques have been especially well-documented, and are celebrated, in the Indian, [[Ancient Chinese wooden architecture|Chinese]], European, and Japanese traditions. Because of the physical existence of Indian and Egyptian examples, we know that furniture from the first several dynasties show the use of complex joints, like the Dovetail, over 5,000 years ago. This tradition continued to other later Western styles. The 18th-century writer [[Diderot]] included over 90 detailed illustrations of wood joints for building structures alone, in his comprehensive encyclopedia published in 1765.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Diderot|first1=Denis|title=l'Encyclopeghdie|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0001.571/--joinerywork-in-building?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=carpentry|website=The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert|access-date=1 April 2015}}</ref> While Western techniques focused on concealment of joinery, the Eastern societies, though later, did not attempt to "hide" their joints. The Japanese and Chinese traditions in particular required the use of hundreds of types of joints. The reason was that nails and glues used did not stand up well to the vastly fluctuating temperatures and humid weather conditions in most of Central and South-East Asia.<ref>{{citation |title=Michael Huntley demystifies the furniture making techniques of Chinese craftsmen prior to 1900 |first=Michael |last=Huntley |date=20 January 2009 |publisher=GMC Publications |journal=Wood Worker's Institute |url=https://www.woodworkersinstitute.com/page.asp?p=809 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122055525/http://woodworkersinstitute.com/page.asp?p=809 |archive-date=22 January 2013 }}</ref> As well, the highly resinous woods used in traditional [[Chinese furniture]] do not glue well, even if they are cleaned with solvents and attached using modern glues.

As the trade modernized new developments have evolved to help speed, simplify, or improve joinery.  Alongside the integration of different glue formulations, newer mechanical joinery techniques include [[Biscuit joiner|"biscuit"]] and [[Domino joiner|"domino"]] joints, and [[Pocket-hole joinery|pocket screw]] joinery.