- Egyptian artisans only produced work for higher class people and used basic materials throughout Egyptian history. Woodworkers made furniture for the rich while lower classes made their own, and shipwrights also worked for higher classes. - Metalworkers used gold, silver, electrum, iron, copper and bronze to make funerary items and jewelry for the rich through smelting copper, tin and later iron. - Stone masons worked on temples, houses and tombs for higher classes and royalty, using polished and painted stone, bronze saws and drilled with jewel-tipped tools. - Standardization of weights and measures was important for trade, with the deben used as a standard of value