Almost every house had wood processing tools: axes, adzes, shaves, chisels, drills, saws and planes. Timber was an essential material, indispensable at construction sites and in artisans’ workshops. Structural elements and entire houses were built with wood along with articles of everyday use as well as furniture, toys, tools, carts and sledges, shrines and roadside crosses. Items built out of perfectly matched boards, hollowed and grooved out of pieces or wood and self-made, fitting into the natural shape of trunks and roots. In the second half of the 19th century, specialist craftsmen started to take over wood processing. Farmers began to order wooden objects from them or were buying ready-made ones at fairs and marketplaces. Once-common woodworking skills are now lost to history. The same set of tools used by professional workshops that had been well-known to their customers is today less and less recognisable to those from outside the industry.