Lost Art Press is a publisher of books and videos for woodworkers and hand tool collectors and is based in Covington, Kentucky.

[2][3] They also produce books about woodworkers such as Henry O. Studley and Charles H. Hayward.

[4] The company publishes works that help the modern woodworker learn traditional hand-tool skills, attempting to restore the balance between hand and machine work by unearthing the so-called "lost arts" of hand skills and explaining how they can be integrated with the machinery in the modern shop to help produce furniture that is crisp, well-proportioned, stout and quickly made.

Make Magazine has said they tap into the "growing unplugged workshop momentum.

Schwarz posits that people can build almost anything with a kit of fewer than 50 good tools; the book shows the reader how to select real working tools, and provides instruction for building a proper chest for a toolkit, following the ancient rules that have been forgotten or ignored.