What is another word for marquetry?

Pronunciation: [mˈɑːkwɪtɹi] (IPA)

Marquetry refers to the art of inlaying various pieces of wood or other materials to create intricate patterns or designs. There are a number of synonyms that can be used to describe marquetry, including intarsia, parquetry, and wood inlay. Intarsia is a technique that involves shaping individual pieces of wood and fitting them together to create a design, while parquetry is a type of marquetry that is used to create patterns in floors or furniture. Wood inlay refers to the process of cutting out a design in a piece of wood and filling it in with another material, like metal or stone. Regardless of the terminology used, the end result of marquetry is always stunning in its complexity and beauty.

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Usage examples for Marquetry

He conjured up an Empress who had once owned the teakwood chair, and a Marquise, with patches and powdered hair, who wrote love letters at the marquetry table.
"Lavender and Old Lace"
Myrtle Reed
Did they want me to have their marquetry table?
"Lavender and Old Lace"
Myrtle Reed
There were several fans, of fine workmanship, a girdle of oxidized silver, set with amethysts and pearls, and a large marquetry box, which contained tea.
"Lavender and Old Lace"
Myrtle Reed

Famous quotes with Marquetry

  • Now it is symptomatic of our rusty-beer-can type of sanity that our culture produces very few magical objects. Jewelry is slick and uninteresting. Architecture is almost totally bereft of exuberance, obsessed with erecting glass boxes. Children's books are written by serious ladies with three names and no imagination, and as for comics, have you ever looked at the furniture in Dagwood's home? The potentially magical ceremonies of the Catholic Church are either gabbled away at top speed, or rationalized with the aid of a commentator. Drama or ritual in everyday behavior is considered affectation and bad form, and manners have become indistinguishable from manerisms—where they exist at all. We produce nothing comparable to the great Oriental carpets, Persian glass, tiles, and illuminated books, Arabian leatherwork, Spanish marquetry, Hindu textiles, Chinese porcelain and embroidery, Japanese lacquer and brocade, French tapestries, or Inca jewelry. (Though, incidentally, there are certain rather small electronic devices that come unwittingly close to fine jewels.) The reason is not just that we are too much in a hurry and have no sense of the present; not just that we cannot afford the type of labor that such things would now involve, nor just that we prefer money to materials. The reason is that we have scrubbed the world clean of magic. We have lost even the vision of paradise, so that our artists and craftsmen can no longer discern its forms. This is the price that must be paid for attempting to control the world from the standpoint of an "I" for whom everything that can be experienced is a foreign object and a nothing-but.
    Alan Watts

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