Marquetry Links
This will never be a complete list of marquetry sites, but we are always keen to learn of new ones, so please feel free to recommend sites we should add. Please also let us know if you find one of these links doesn't work.
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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 - See all 43 millennium hexagons. The whole mural was 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.
- Cristina Alvarez Magliano - 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.
- 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 members of both!
- Paul Dean's Art Marquetry site A quality site with quality marquetry - well worth a visit.
- American Marquetry Society Home base for our American friends. AMI is a non-profit corporation devoted to advancing the art and craft of marquetry.
- Jim Steichen's Marquetry and Intarsia Pages
Commercial - marquetry makers
- Jean-Claude Deveaux's web site - Some interesting work here, include some fascinating trompe l'oeil work.
- Daryoush Ababaf - 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
- 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.
- 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!
- Aryma - amazing commercial laser and fret-sawn work including panels for Cunard liners and the Orient Express.
- Hudson River Inlay A whole range of attractive designs, some utilising exotic materials such as mother-of-pearl.
- 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.
- 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! Larry was commissioned to make the marquetry and inlays for the one-millionth Martin guitar.
- Jean-Charles Spindler The third generation of a famous marquetry family, Jean-Charles continues to produce exquisite pieces from his workshop in France.
Commercial - veneer and equipment suppliers
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