Private/Hobby
- The Marquetry Society - Recommended - "Home base" for around 25 affiliated groups.
- Redbridge Marquetry Group - Recommended - Our friends from North-East London who have established this website fairly recently. Lots of good information ... and some fun as well.
- The Marquetry Society Millennium Mural - Recommended - A big page (7-10 minutes to load) but worth it to see all 43 millennium hexagons at good resolution. The whole thing is 4 metres long!
- www.lamarqueterie.com - Recommended - Run by Bernard Rottenfus from Toulouse, this site has a vast amount of detail about marquetry and marquetarians in France.
- HobbitHouse.com - Recommended - Pauls Hinds's fantastic photo reference of woods - over 450 types and over 6000 photos! Lots of information about woods and useful guidance about the accuracy (or otherwise) of photos on the web.
- The Dan Levitt's Banjo - Recommended - A tour de force with marquetry in every conceivable place. Dan is an administrator at UCLA and this banjo has taken around 25 years to complete. Not only that - he can play it too - and a CD is due out soon!
- Cristina Alvarez Magliano One of our e-members exhibiting floral pictures constructed with an exciting mix of conventional marquetry and unusual media, including metals, mother-of-pearl, oil paints and more. Cristina has moved from Argentina to Canada.
- Shropshire Cutting Edge Marquetry - A discussion group and web-site from quite near to us in Shropshire, UK. Still in its infancy, but growing!
- Staffordshire Arts & Craft Network An organisation linking local artists, craftsmen and groups. Lots of links and details of local events where you can see members' work.
- The Eccleshall web-site Run by our good friend Peter Jones, this has all sorts of information about our home town. Visit NOW!
- Marquetry Mail List Kindly started up by John Wilders in Australia and now moderated by Mike and Al in USA. Follow the link, join the list and you'll be in touch with around 200 marquetarians all around the world. Ask for advice, offer your help, state your opinion (within reason please!). Don't think you will get your e-mail clogged up with rubbish from this. It can go for weeks with no messages, but help and advice is there when you need it.
- Parquetry Mail List ditto for parquetry - lots of us are memebrs of both!
- Paul Dean's Art Marquetry site A quality site with quality marquetry - well worth a visit.
- American Marquetry Inc. Home base for our American friends. AMI is a non-profit corporation devoted to advancing the art and craft of marquetry.
- Brian Joyce's Marquetry Page Brian is a former member of the St.Albans marquetry group.
- Jim Steichen's Marquetry and Intarsia Pages
Commercial - marquetry makers
- Daryoush Ababaf - recent - Some amazing three-dimensional work from ths Iranian artist now residing in Texas.
- Heritage Inlay Design - UK based company specialising in the manufacture of high quality marquetry inlays, layons and panels for a variety of projects. Believed to be the only commercial marquetry cutting company in the UK that employs laser cutting, fret saw and scalpel marquetry
- Harmony Cedar - Chests, tables and more made by hand Amish Tradition.
- Schürch Woodwork - Furniture, tool sales, marquetry courses (USA) and much more from Paul Schürch
- Living Remains Inlays - Dustin Doerntlein's beautiful furniture, boxes and carvings
- Original Marquetry - Bandings, inserts and panels from a UK company based near Bristol.
- Father and Sons Matyukhin - A Ukranian family business working with traditional techniques. (English Version)
- Marque-Escrich - A Spanish company, based near Valencia, with a wide range.
- L'Artista del Legno - An Italian company from Cannavaccio di Urbino. Their site includes a wide variety of designs ranging from simple to complex and including some excellent rural scenes.
- Monsieur and Madame de Bazelaire - The winners of the top award in the 2000 Fondation-Patrimoine competition (see below).
- Marquetry City Some unusual commercially available works. Streaming video link shows fret-saw cutting and marquetry assembly.
- Greentree Creations Jane Burke's site has a great deal of attractive work on show. Jane originally learnt her marquetry in Paraguay.
- Silas Kopf - Some fascinating furniture with marquetry designs. Several of Silas's works are also illustrated in Bill Lincoln's "Marquetry Manual"
- Alfons Knott - Bright and attractive geometric designs abound, with some pictorial work as well. Look out for the waterfall made from a single piece of veneer!
- Anita Marquetry - Recommended - This site has been considerably extended and whilst mainly promoting their commercial laser and fret-sawn work also includes lots of information useful to the hobbyist. Good selection of designs and a series of photographs of different veneers that can be downloaded at several resolutions.
- Hudson River Inlay A whole range of attractive designs, some utilising exotic materials such as mother-of-pearl.
- Spider Johnson Texas-based marquetarian producing modern style marquetry by saw and laser cutting. His site includes pictures produced in collaboration with Lora Hunt, which have an unusual aerial perspective and frequently incorporate dyed veneers. Be sure to check out how he got the nickname "Spider"!
- W Patrick Edwards A San Diego craftsman offering beautiful modern pieces made using the traditional method taught by the Ecole de Boulle in Paris. He also teaches this method.
- Manohar's Work Describing himself as a "small time artist from India" this chap has some fascinating pictures - check out his work.
- Larry Robinson Inlays Amazing work in both quality veneers and exotic material like abalone and mother-of-pearl. Then you realise that all this detail is on a guitar neck!
- Jean-Charles Spindler The third generation of a famous marquetry family, Jean-Charles continues to produce exquisite pieces from his workshop in France.
- Russian Renaissance Some Russian marquetry with a distinctive style.
Commercial - veneer and equipment suppliers
Other
- Woodezine - On-line magazine about all aspects of woodworking. Register and you get a short email prompt when each monthly edition is published.
- Fondation-Patrimoine - A French organisation which organises an annual competition for specialist artists. In 2000 the competition covered marquetry and other wood crafts, including instrument-making. The site (in French) gives details of the award winners and pictures of their works.
- Jean-Claude Deveaux's Links Page - A huge links page, particularly rich in French links. A few of the links are out of date or have only tenuous connections to marquetry, but still a valuable resource that is well worth a visit.
- The Art Factory Dirk Boelman's scroll saw site. A neat site with some excellent designs. Dirk was complimentary about our site, so a link was the least we could do!
- Recasval S.L. A Spanish company from near Valencia specialising in bandings - in lengths up to 100 metres !
- F.G.Bruschweiller (Antiques) Ltd. Interesting pictures of some old (big!) marquetry furniture.
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