Tunbridge ware
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tunbridge-ware-176-8307509
title:
Tunbridge ware
text:
Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different coloured woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately s
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description:
Form of decoratively inlaid woodwork
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunbridge_ware
date created:
2004-10-11T10:44:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T16:13:37Z
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