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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Apologies if I was a little random: I had just been looking at a large – and expensive – marquetry panel that had ...

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 t ...

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 ...

Marquetry as an artform predates ancient Egypt. Elaborate patterns and intricate designs are created through the insertion of small bits of wood, shell, ivory or other items into a veneer of wood, ...

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 ...