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Creating Breathtaking Works of Art with American Marquetry

Decorating with wood is the best possible way to describe the art of Marquetry. Wooden surfaces of objects are adorned in an ornamental way with veneers. Multi-colored veneers are cut into different shapes and sizes and are then glued onto wooden surfaces in some decorative designs.

For hundreds of years now Marquetry has been used to create decorative furniture and ornamental wood works. This was a popular art form in Europe since the 17th century. American Marquetry is inspired by its European counterpart.

In the 19th century German immigrants brought Marquetry to America. It was vastly different from the mechanized form of the wood industry then. Beautiful pieces of art were created from simple hand tools and some glue.

It was close to the time of the Civil War that Americans began to take to Marquetry. The obsession with Marquetry then lasted for close to a century. If one examines the pieces that were created at this time, it is clear to see that locally available woods like cherry and maple were preferred.

Mahogany and other such exotic woods were imported. Marquetry was further enhanced by the Americans who took to staining wood for more color. The kind of patterns that were thus possible became quite limitless.

There was a huge range available that included simple geometric patterns and the more complex ones that resembled paintings. Steam powered saw mills came to America in 1830. An inch of wood could now be cut into as fine as 15 to 20 layers each.

Most wood workers however, preferred to do things by hand despite such developments in technology. European styles are what Americans depended on when Marquetry first came to the country. But the elaborateness of design was not something the Americans included.

American Marquetry in the early days was propagated mainly by the cabinet makers of Boston and some other artisans who assisted them. Gothic, Rococo, Renaissance as well as Louis the XV were some of the styles in vogue till the end of the World Wars. Post the World Wars, a lot of the Art Deco style was adopted.

Remy Vriz developed a technique called piercing in the 1980s. Layers of veneer were placed together and the topmost one sanded right down to the level of being practically transparent. American Marquetry specialist Patrice Lejeune further developed this technique.

As a side form of art, Lejeune developed what is called "sprinkling". Sawdust and shavings that lay waste from other projects were collected and used to given pigments or colors to veneers making them more dynamic. American Marquetry has developed quite a bit since its debut.

There are a couple of dedicated organizations that constantly work at innovating and promoting the classic and contemporary forms of Marquetry in the country. If this has caught your interest, then you should head to such places, which will give you the best training in Marquetry possible.

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