Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [additive and joining processes and techniques]
6. [surface covering processes and techniques]

Narrower term/s

• intarsia (process)[+]
  • relief intarsia
• boulle work
• parquetry
• Spänemarmorierung [NP]

Anotations

Scope note:

The technique in which small pieces of specially shaped wood, or sometimes other materials such as ivory, are incorporated into a suface of decorative veneer. Distinguished from "inlay," where decorative pieces are set into a solid ground; in marquetry, the entire surface is veneered.