The facilities included numerous sawmills utilising wood from surrounding forests and exporting it via the Łomnica (Limnitsia) river, navigable for 6 months in a year.
The Martello tower built at Tybee Island, Georgia was constructed around 1815 utilising wood and Tabby (cement), a common local building material at the time, instead of the brick or stone that the British towers used.
Nevelson continued to utilize wood in her sculptures, but also experimented with other materials such as aluminium, plastic and metal.
The purpose of The Rare Wood Collection is to allow students and faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design the opportunity to utilize wood of outstanding beauty and value.
Prior to the establishment of the missions, the native peoples knew only how to utilize bone, seashells, stone, and wood for building, tool making, weapons, and so forth.
But there was little technology, the builders had obviously been given instructions on how to utilise wood.
He also was one of the first modernist to bring a sensitivity to the local and the regional in his work, utilizing indigenous stone or wood to articulate his spare vocabulary.
The rise of kingdoms in the West African coastal region produced architecture which drew on indigenous traditions, utilizing wood.
Klippel's work commonly utilized an extraordinary diversity of junk materials: wood, stone, plastic toy kits, wooden pattern parts, typewriter machinery, industrial piping and machine parts, as well as bronze, silver, oils, photography, collage and paper.
"We utilized underutilized wood that used to be left as trash."