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2. Mokume-gane - Wikipedia

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   The term mokume-gane translates closely to 'wood grain metal' or 'wood eye metal' and describes the way metal takes on the appearance of natural wood grain. [1] Mokume-gane fuses several layers of differently coloured precious metals together to form a sandwich of alloys called a "billet." The billet is then manipulated in such a way that a ...

3. Wood grain - Wikipedia

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   Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers [1] or the pattern resulting from such an arrangement. [2] R. Bruce Hoadley wrote that grain is a "confusingly versatile term" with numerous different uses, including the direction of the wood cells (e.g., straight grain, spiral grain), surface appearance or figure, growth-ring placement (e.g., vertical grain), plane of the cut (e.g ...

4. Graining - Wikipedia

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   Graining is the art of imitating the different types of natural wood grain. It ranges from simple Clair Bois to intricate English Walnut. The panelling of the great chamber of Theobalds House in England, used by James VI and I, was decorated in "walnut tree colour" in 1618 with highlighted mouldings in black and gold. [1]

5. Reed mat (craft) - Wikipedia

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   The supple mats made by this process of weaving without a loom are widely used in Thai homes. These mats are also now being made into shopping bags, place mats, and decorative wall hangings. One popular kind of Thai mat is made from a kind of reed known as Kachud, which grows in the southern marshes. After the reeds are harvested, they are ...

6. Ingrain wallpaper - Wikipedia

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   It consists of two layers of paper with wood fibre in between; different kinds of ingrain wallpaper are distinguished by the size and form of the fibre pieces. Ingrain wallpaper was invented by German pharmacist Hugo Erfurt in 1864; marketed by the company his grandfather founded, it was first used as a decoration for shop windows, but began ...

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