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  2. Tole painting - Wikipedia

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    Tole painting is the folk art of decorative painting on tin and wooden utensils, objects and furniture. Typical metal objects include utensils , coffee pots , and similar household items. Wooden objects include tables, chairs, and chests, including hope chests, toyboxes and jewelry boxes.

  3. Distressing - Wikipedia

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    A table given a distressed finish, with a historical paint colour, edges that have been sanded down to expose the wood, and vintage hardware attached to the drawers. Distressing (or weathered look ) in the decorative arts is the activity of making a piece of furniture or object appear aged and older, giving it a "weathered look".

  4. Marquetry - Wikipedia

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    Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial ...

  5. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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    In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative art are excluded from the term; most ornaments do not include human figures, and if present they are small compared to the overall scale.

  6. 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.

  7. Faux painting - Wikipedia

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    Graining, wood graining, or faux bois (French for "fake wood") is often used to imitate exotic or hard-to-find wood varieties. Trompe-l'œil, "fool the eye" in French, is a realistic painting technique often used in murals, and to create architectural details as well as depth and 3 dimensionality.

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