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Inlay (ivory, red sandalwood, copper) on wooden casket. In a wood matrix, inlays commonly use wood veneers, but other materials like shells, mother-of-pearl, horn or ivory may also be used. Pietre dure, or coloured stones inlaid in white or black marbles, and inlays of precious metals in a base metal matrix, are other forms of inlay. Master ...
Structure of dental inlays and onlays. In dentistry, inlays and onlays are used to fill cavities, [1] and then cemented in place in the tooth. This is an alternative to a direct restoration, made out of composite, amalgam or glass ionomer, that is built up within the mouth.
Inlay on guitars or similar fretted instruments are decorative materials set into the wooden ... or mother-of-pearl for a fretboard made of a darker wood such as ...
Intarsia gained popularity in the United States in the 1980s as a wooden art technique using a band saw or scroll saw. Early practitioners made money both by selling their art, and by selling patterns for others to use. In France Georges Vriz proposed a new method for marquetry. Contrary to other techniques, based on a decoration "flat" made of ...
Modern marquetry: a tangram table by Silas Kopf, with trompe-l'œil images of paper and brush made entirely of different shades of flat veneer. Although marquetry is a technique separate from inlay, English marquetry-makers were called "inlayers" throughout the 18th century.
The study revealed that the bowl is made of a silver-copper alloy containing approximately 3 wt.% copper. The niello inlays were found to consist solely of silver sulfide . This composition closely resembles that of early Roman niello inlays, suggesting a possible technological link between Roman and Sasanian metalworkers during this period.
Pearloid inlays in the neck of a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar Pearloid is a plastic that is intended to resemble mother of pearl . It is commonly used in making musical instruments, especially for pickguards , electric guitar inlays, and accordions .
Cloisonné inlays on gold of carnelian, feldspar, garnet, turquoise, lapis lazuli, 1880s BC Chinese Ming Dynasty cloisonné enamel bowl, using nine colours of enamel. Cloisonné (French:) is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects with colored material held in place or separated by metal strips or wire, normally of gold.