Antique chess table with marquetry and inlays

Inlay is the term we use to describe work in which, unlike marquetry, material is taken out of a solid piece of wood. Then the inlays are inserted.

Inlay is the term we use to describe work in which, unlike marquetry, material is taken out of a solid piece of wood. Then the inlays are inserted.

Fillet band or fillet marquetry is the term we use to describe light and dark veneer surfaces placed diagonally against each other.

Marquetry is the term used to describe a picture made up of individual pieces of veneer. These can be figurative pictures or ornamental ones, such as the bandelwerk from the Baroque period.

The wildly many wildly mixed styles of historicism have been divided into sensible chapters in this book. Well illustrated and clearly laid out reference book. Recommended reference work.