A variety of woods are used to make marquetry, from seventy to eighty species, with a variety of colors, and sometimes camel bone, seashells, copper, brass, silver, gold, and ivory are incorporated to ...

Marquetry is an age-old woodworking practice made popular by French king Louis XIV, it involves laying veneers like a puzzle to create an ornamental pattern. Today, multicoloured examples have ...

You can walk down the narrow alleys of Mysore and find rooms with 10-20 people making traditional wooden tables and designs. I found a very cute one near Hotel Prakash on M. K. Street. You can watch ...

Few watch brands could pull off decorating a dial with a peacock using actual peacock feathers, mother-of-pearl or hardstone marquetry and diamonds, not just because it takes a certain level of ...

OF ALL THE ARTISTIC techniques used by designers and cabinetmakers over the centuries, marquetry would seem the least likely to enjoy a 21st-century resurgence. It takes forever. It's prohibitively ...