Marquetry
Art and craft applying pieces of veneer to form decorative patterns / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with parquetry, wood mosaic floors
Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects[1] with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial panels appreciated in their own right.
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Marquetry differs from the more ancient craft of inlay, or intarsia, in which a solid body of one material is cut out to receive sections of another to form the surface pattern. The word derives from a Middle French word meaning "inlaid work".