Veneering and Inlaying

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Excerpt from Veneering and Inlaying: A Study of Materials, Principles and Processes Later on, when the use of glue became known, veneering made rapid progress and some of the best pieces of antique handed down to us bear mute evidence of artistic skill and patience in the employ ment of veneering and inlaying of wood, metal, and other materials for surface decoration. Some of the furniture known to us as Period furniture could not have been executed had not the old masters known the art of building up - ~gluing three or more layers of wood together in such a way that the grain in one layer always runs at right angles to that of the adjacent layer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.