Many shipwrights also worked as woodcarvers until elaborate ship decoration declined in the mid-eighteenth century. Portsmouth once maintained a school for woodcarvers. Pierre Puget ran a workshop at Toulon in the seventeenth century and became one of the best-known figures in the craft. These examples place warship ornament within dockyard training and specialist workshop practice.
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Woodcarving as a shipwright's specialist craft
Shipwrights often carved warship decoration, while Portsmouth's carving school and Pierre Puget's Toulon workshop show how the specialist craft was organized.