WHAT IS "LE REMBARREMENT"

"Le rembarrement" is one of the three methods used in french carpentry traditional scribing.

It has two meanings:

-        Drawing: this method requires to plot accurately the dimensions of the timbers to determine the intersecting points of the cuts. The next step requires to move those points from the plan view to the elevation view. 

-       -        Marking timbers: the carpenter puts the timber on the full-scale drawing (on the floor, called “l’épure” in French) and moves the points from the drawing to the timber, then turns it to finalize the marking.

      This method can be used only on straight and square timbers.

The general meaning of this word is: moving a point from one context to another.