Viking shipbuilders strengthened knot-related weak points in the oak planks with patches fastened from the outside. This management of defects was aimed at minimising the structural risks created by knots that remained within the plank plane after radial cleaving.
Charcoal illustration by Selim Rumi Civralı.
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