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]
7. marquetry (process or technique)

Narrower term/s

• relief intarsia

Anotations

Scope note:

Decorative wood process in which the design or pattern is made by assembling small pieces of veneer in various shapes. The term, which derives from 15th-century Italy, is commonly used to describe both "marquetry," in which the entire surface is veneered, and "wood inlay," in which the pattern pieces are laid into a solid ground. The term may also be used to refer to similar works of stone, glass, or another material. Distinguished from mosaics, as pieces in intarsia work are precision-cut to tightly fit together.