• Pointed hammer (or “walking” hammer) and peen hammer. Granite hammers have a pointed peen and are larger. They are known as the “Do-it-all” hammer. Otherwise, they use the half-stone hammer or “camartelo” (the largest); the small hammer or “walking” hammer, and the “little one” hammer, for the tiniest stones – mosaic work. The hammers are made of tempered steel, and one needs to know the tempering process, but nowadays, there are no blacksmiths to make them. Many pavers make their own hammers, and some even mark them for ownership, because they like to personalise them and ensure they are not lost. The fact is that pavers are all very proud of their tools, especially their hammers.

 In addition to these, the following are used:

• Lines to mark the rows for the “stretching”
• Ruler (a continuous board)
• Small cross or spirit level
• Pickaxe
• Shovel and fork for moving the cubes
• Wide broom for spreading the sand
• Wooden mallet (with a 1 m-long handle and 15–20 kg at the head, reinforced with two iron bands around the wood to prevent splitting)
• Watering can
• Drawings and their respective templates
• Small bench
• Wheelbarrow
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Some machinery has begun to be acquired by certain local authorities and companies, such as the hydraulic hammer, the mechanical trowel, or the polisher.

Drawings are still considered fundamental in Portuguese artistic pavement, serving as the basis for the templates used on the pavement. In Lisbon, these are usually created by municipal technical staff, mainly architects, or occasionally by invited visual artists, and only rarely by the anonymous craftsmen who execute them. Due to their great flexibility, the drawings are produced either to cover specific predefined areas or are created spontaneously for later adapted application on a surface selected for paving. Some designs originate from visual artists who, together with the artisanal work of experienced pavers, recreate them using templates in artistic pavement across a wide variety of surfaces.

All pavement that features a design must have a template, which can be a single piece or consist of several pieces that are numbered (a template can have up to 90 different pieces). It can be said that each template, as movable cultural heritage associated with Portuguese pavement, “lives on its own,” since it may be used for a single project, be part of a design and template execution plan for a paving job, and can also be applied individually or together with other templates in any other project.