Special training in scribing is available in several dozen training centres, guilds and businesses.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

The purpose of the scribing tradition is to master in three dimensions the design of a complex wooden building.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Carpenters who are members of trade guilds recognize the scribing tradition as having a symbolic and initiatory meaning that remains a secret.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Scribing is a combination of the graphic processes used in France since the thirteenth century that make it possible to express accurately through the design the actual volumes of a building, its interlocking, and the characteristics of the wooden components.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage