Traditional carpentry employs wooden joinery in furnishings to fit pieces of wood together without use of metal nails. Artisans breathe new life into the wood, imbuing a Kyoto aesthetic as they work.

Masters of joinery have developed ingenious ways to assemble pieces of wood, with perhaps the most legendary examples coming ...

There aren’t any fasteners or glue holding them together either, as creator [Dheera Venkatraman] used authentic Japanese wood joinery techniques to make their components fit together like a puzzle.

is made from 10 cm long honoki magnolia wood panels and assembled with a Japanese wood-joinery method which omits the use of screws or glue. It weighs 900 grams. It's six months in orbit will ...