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. [image-making processes and techniques]
6. [painting and painting techniques]
7. painting techniques
8. [painting techniques for special effects]
9. faux finishing

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques
4. processes and techniques by specific type
5. additive and joining processes and techniques
6. surface covering processes and techniques
7. marquetry

Anotations

Scope note:

Wood finishing and decoration technique, creating a faux marble or stone effect, often used to make intarsia scenes or patterns with small chips or pieces of variously colored wood. The technique was made popular in 16th-17th-century German furniture making, although it is seen in later furniture as well.