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Skilled artisans were considered superior to common labourers. They learned their art from a master who ensured stylistic beautiful objects they created for the living and the dead. Women worked in weaving, perfume making, baking and needlework. Few creations were signed, and exceptional ability was rewarded through increased social status. Carpenters |
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Carpenters Skilled carpenters made a wide scope of products, from roofing beams to furniture and statues. Their tools included saws, axes, chisels, adzes, wooden mallets, stone polishers and bow drills. Wood was hard to find in Egypt,so it was imported from countries like as Lebanon. |
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Stonemasons and Sculptors Sculptors had to work to very strict stylistic rules. The they first shaped and smoothed the stones by masons using stone hammers. For bas-reliefs, draftsmen outlined images on the stone before a team of sculptors began carving them with copper chisels. A fine powder was used to polish the stone before the images were painted |
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The Ancient Egyptians produced many monumental and life-size stone statues of pharaohs, nobles, gods and goddesses. They presented themselves as proud self-confident people capable of ruling their land and over powering their enemies. Stone vessels were made by shaping the stone and smoothing its outside with materials like quartz sand. A crank-shaped drill was used to hollow out the inside. |
| Many types of precious stones were used in jewellery. To make beads, artisans broke stones and rolled them between other stones to shape them. A bow drill was used to drill a hole through the beads, which were then rolled in a recessed receptacle containing an abrasive to define their shape. |  |
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The brickmaker had one of the more menial occupations in ancient Egypt. To make bricks, Nile mud was mixed with sand, straw and water, slapped into wooden moulds and then slapped out onto the ground to dry in the sun. Bricks were used extensively in ancient Egypt for building everything from peasants' homes to the pharaoh's palaces. |
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