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painting with sliced trees, where the brush is a knife and patience is the only pigment.
means Marquetry is the craft of creating decorative pictures or patterns by inlaying thin pieces of wood veneer (and sometimes shell, ivory, or metal) into a surface like a piece of furniture.
from From the French 'marqueterie,' built on 'marqueter,' to inlay or mark out, which traces back to 'marque' — a mark or sign. The same Germanic root sits behind English 'mark,' so a marquetry panel is, at heart, a surface carefully 'marked out' in wood. The technique flourished in France, which is why the word arrived in English wearing French clothes.
- wood mosaic
- images assembled from thin veneers of different woods
- french court
- perfected by Louis XIV's cabinetmaker Andre-Charles Boulle
- packet cutting
- stacked veneers sawn at once for matching pieces
- beyond wood
- also uses bone, ivory, shell, and metals
- sand shading
- hot sand scorches edges to fake depth and shadow
boulle marquetry — andré-charles boulle's tortoiseshell and brass inlay technique, 17th century france, most famous furniture style
taj mahal marble inlay — semi-precious stone marquetry work on walls and floors, agra india, completed 1653
sorrento marquetry boxes — wooden inlay souvenirs from sorrento italy, featuring wood veneers in intricate geometric and scenic patterns