Grasping the wooden handle of a dozukime saw with both hands, I make a rip-cut into a block of eastern white pine, leaving behind a 1/64-inch wide kerf. I am cutting a dovetail: a wood joint developed over five-thousand years ago by the hands of our ancestors. Even now, a well-fitted dovetail joint remains one of the strongest, most elegant ways to join wood. I knew nothing about traditional woodworking when I first picked up a hand-plane, but I was soon inspired by the richness of the craft: the quality of a hand-planed finish, the spirit of craftsmanship, and the nature of material. I was amazed by the wealth of knowledge embodied in craftwork. The tools and materials I encountered spoke to me; I learned to care for them and for my work. How would the things I make endure through time? How would the things I make affect others? In an era where materialism has come to represent a spiritless relationship to the things around us, traditions of craft can teach us how to imbue the human spirit in our work. After making a harvest table, four chairs, ninety-four earthenware pots, and a lamp, I reflect on the act of making as a means of discovery. Making affects our thinking and our approach to material and environment. Making can help us develop a craftsman???s capacity to listen, a great respect for material, and a desire to make better objects for posterity. Making is learning.

Esta dissertação buscou recuperar o processo de concepção e implantação de uma exposição de longa duração, bem como analisar sua expografia, a fim de revelar as ideias mobilizadas pelas estratégias e recursos expográficos. Trata-se da exposição do Museu de Artes e Ofícios de Belo Horizonte, aberto ao público em 2006. Situado na antiga Estação Ferroviária Central da cidade, o museu expõe, em sua exposição de longa-duração, um amplo acervo relativo às práticas de produção pré-industrial no Brasil, composto de objetos e instrumentos de trabalho associados a diversos ofícios manuais. Essa exposição, inovadora no país devido ao tema que rege o Museu, utiliza-se de estratégias expográficas que remetem à experiência francesa dos ecomuseus. Percorrer o processo de constituição deste museu, revelando suas matrizes e referências museológicas, bem como a abordagem do acervo e as ideias mobilizadas por seu discurso expográfico especialmente no que tange à memória do trabalho e à representação dos trabalhadores são os objetivos desta dissertação. / This dissertation looked for to recover the process of conception and implantation of a long term exhibition, as well as to analyze it in order to reveal the ideas mobilized by the strategies and exploitative resources. It is the exhibition of the Museum of Arts and Crafts of Belo Horizonte, opened to the public in 2006. Located in the old Central Railway Station of the city, the museum exhibits, in its long-term exhibition, an ample collection related to the practices of production pre-industrial in Brazil, composed of objects and instruments of work associated with various manual crafts. This exhibition, innovative in the country due to the theme that governs the Museum, uses expographics strategies that refer to the French experience of ecomuseums. The objectives of this dissertation are to go through this museum\'s process of constitution, revealing its matrixes and museological references, as well as the approach to the collection and the ideas mobilized by its expographic speech, especially about the memory of work and workers\' representation.

This thesis deals with the effect of the design on hand tools. In the first theoretical part of this thesis, individual manual operations carried out during manufacturing are being further analyzed. The next part then focuses on the individual aspects of the product design and its influence on the hand tools. Followed by the processing of achieved parameters in handwork. The experimental part of this thesis deals with adjustments of the tap wrench´s handles made for manual cutting of internal threads. The utilization of the material when selecting a semi-finished product from blanks as well as the evaluation of the manufacturing in this way itself are also closely described in this part.