Every tool tells a story.
Heritage Tools Archive is a systematic collection of historic hand tools, craft techniques, and workshop culture — documented through archival-style illustration. One drawing at a time. Historically accurate. Built to last.
Heritage Tools Archive — The Project
Every hand tool carries knowledge. The knowledge of the craftsmen who designed it, refined it, and passed it down across generations. Heritage Tools Archive documents this knowledge before it disappears — in archival linework illustrations that are as precise as they are timeless.
Each tool in the archive comes with its German name, its English description, and the craft context that shaped it. Because a broadaxe is not just a broadaxe — it is a solution to a problem that took centuries to perfect.
Volume 01 — Woodcraft
12 tools. 12 stories. The first chapter of an ongoing archive. Volume 01 focuses on traditional woodworking — from the shaving horse to the pole lathe, from the drawknife to the broadaxe. Tools that shaped timber, built roofs, and furnished homes long before power tools existed.