Amazing Woodworking Photographs From Around the World

Wood isn't just enjoyable to work with; it also makes a great subject for photography.

Over the last few years we've seen some fascinating and amazing woodwork related photographs on Flickr. We've decided to share some of them below; hopefully you'll find them as interesting as we did.

Cathedrals:

Notre-Dame (alter, II)
Notre-Dame (alter, II)
Robert Francis

Catedral de Barcelona
catedral de barcelona 10.7.08 - 99

West Coast Totems:

Comox Totem Pole

Totems Victoria Inner Harbor
Victoria Totems

Manual Wood Turning:

Little Woodham Living History Village
Tom the wood turner uses a pole lathe to fashion a wooden spoon in Little Woodham Living History Village

Cutting a bishop (chess piece) – Morocco
Cutting a bishop in Marrakech


Embrace - Giant dovetails:

embrace

Nature form furniture – Woody Bench:

Wood Beds (4)

Furniture factory, Ghana, Africa:


Ifugao Wood Carver:

Ifugao Wood Carver

Wood Work Shops:

Joinery

The carpenter's workshop
The carpenter's workshop

The Old Howland Brothers Mill

Old Japan:

Master Wood Carver at Work
Master Wood Carver at Work

THE BEAD MAKER -- Apprentice Watches the Master
THE BEAD MAKER --  Apprentice Watches the Master -- A Rosary Shop in Old Meiji-Era Japan

Early American Kitchen:

Thorne Rooms at KMA, Early American Kitchen (detail)

Wood Interiors:

The Gothic Study - The Private Library of William Randolph Hearst
The Gothic Study - The Private Library of William Randolph Hearst

The Restaurant in Tokyo that Inspired that crazy scene from Kill Bill
The Restaurant in Tokyo that Inspired that crazy scene from Kill Bill

Wood Carving:

Woodwork Festival - Chiang Mai, Thailand
Woodwork

The green man
the green man

Wood carving - angel
wood carving - angel

Viking woodwork:
viking woodwork

Transportation made of wood:

Dreaming of the sea
Dreaming of the sea

Wavecrest Woodie Show
Wavecrest Woodie Show 2008-15

Just Wood:

Vinkel
Vinkel

Woodworks
Woodworks

Anguskirk