Inlay is very often used for its decoration, and it adds a graceful line to the piece it is used on, which is always of choice wood inlaid or painted.
In furniture for these apartments the less inlay of other woods, the more chaste will be the style of work.
On much furniture, particularly that enriched with inlay, ivory escutcheons were used, and sometimes those of holly or other wood used in the inlay were set in.
With satin and light-coloured woods the decorations may be of ebony or rosewood; with rosewood let the decorations be ormolu and the inlay of brass.
Narrow thread-like bands of brass were used for purposes of inlay and in the lyre-back chairs the strings were brass, as well as the accompanying ornaments.
At each intersection of the lattice work inlay is a little rosette.
His tables, with the delicate inlay and slender tapering legs, as also his sideboards, are frequently called by the name of his great successor, Sheraton, and even in England the two makers are frequently confused.
For the patterns used in his inlay he had recourse to classic models for his inspiration, like the Adam brothers, who had done much to popularize this simplicity of design.
Where it may be requisite to make out panelling by inlay of lines, let these be of brass or ebony.
The divisions of the lower part have an edging of satin-wood, which in the centre panel is made more ornate with an inlay of ebony.
An inlay of geometric or other patterns for floors, often in colored woods.
A narrow inlay which contrasts in color or grain with the surface which it is used to embellish.
Use of hairline stripe of natural inlay at regular intervals gives an unusual fabric like effect to this modern design.
Inlay was his favorite method of embellishment, with turning, some carving, ornamental veneering, and painting.
This is rare in the instruments from Pompeii, though there are two probes with a spiral inlay in the Naples Museum.
In some cases the bronze is decorated with aninlay of silver damascening.
In the Museum at Chesters (Chollerford) there is a tin weight for medicines.
Along with it were found two other handles, which, instead of a spatula, had carried a steel needle (Pl.
It was largest in the probe known as the spathomele--a combination of spatula and probe which was in extremely common use for pharmaceutical purposes.
It is hollow, and is ornamented to resemble the head and body of a snake.
It cannot have been a needle, as Adams and Cornarius translate it, as some of these applications (e.
Incise the outer integument between the ribs with a bellied scalpel.
We have also preserved by Paul a chapter by Archigenes on abscess of the womb (VI.
During the after treatment a leaden tube filled with mutton fat was left in the uterus at night, while through the day one of the pine dilators was used.
An ivory pestle was found with a surgeon's outfit in Cologne.
Great care must be taken in placing the tool correctly; no portion of the inlay may protrude beyond the flat side of the tool, as any particle of the edge, however minute, which is not sunk in the groove would have to be cut off.
The inlay is lightly damped round the edges, and the round end of the tool is placed half on the inlay and half on the groundwork.
The only way of decorating leather so treated is by an inlay (or literally onlay) of skins of other colours, and is known as Leather Mosaic.
The metal on which the inlay is to be used is first covered with a thin coating of wax and the design scratched through to the metal with a sharp, hard point of some kind.
Illustration: The Ends of the Cord are Held Tightly and the Winding Protects the Hands] Inlaying Metals by Electroplating Very pretty and artistic effects of silver or nickel inlay on bronze, copper, etc.
Beautiful inlay picture in colors of Beverly on the cover.
With color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, and attractiveinlay cover in colors.
With illustrations by John Rae, and colored inlay cover.
With illustrations and inlay cover picture by Harrison Fisher.
ARMS AND THE WOMAN, By Harold MacGrath With inlay cover in colors by Harrison Fisher.
THE HEART LINE, by Gelett Burgess, with halftone illustrations by Lester Ralph, and inlay cover in colors.
HILMA, by William Tillinghast Eldridge, with illustrations by Harrison Fisher and Martin Justice, and inlay cover.
It was not usual actually to inlay the decoration before the time of the XVIIIth Dynasty.
Bracelets, pendants, beads, rings, and inlay made from shell were acquired by trade with tribes to the south who obtained the shell from the Gulf of California.
The Sinagua also bartered for turquoise pendants, earrings, beads, andinlay pieces from other groups.
At Burgos is a pulpit decorated with inlay as well as carving, and one of the most elaborate works of marquetry of comparatively modern times is Spanish.
The various portions of inlay are then cut from different veneers of the desired colour and fitted into their places.
From this to the decoration of the same surfaces by sinking the metal in the wood is a short step, and some think that this was the origin of the metal inlay so well known a little later under the name of Boulle work.
In German work, however, inlay was never of so much importance as carving, and the Baroque influence almost immediately affected the character of the design for the worse.
The use of inlay makes the direction from which the light enters the room a matter of no moment, so long as the light reaches the object decorated.
The Italian receipt books are well provided with receipts for producing black, which suggests that most of the ebony used in inlay was factitious.
A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors.
But for its inlay of islands the sea would be bare or unadorned.
Under foot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broidered the ground.
Both in this later Stuart period and in the days of the first Charles inlay was considerably used to heighten the carved designs on oak tables, chairs, and cabinets.
The growth of commerce was responsible for the introduction of many varieties of foreign woods, which were used to produce finer effects in marquetry than the rudeinlay of Elizabethan days.
His most notable productions are the finely chased ormolu, in which he was an accomplished worker, and the inlay of tortoiseshell and brass, sometimes varied with ebony or silver, which have remained the wonder of succeeding generations.
Marqueterie of rich design was made, the inlay being of various coloured woods and shaded.
Between the drawers is the design of a tulip in marquetry, and narrow bands of inlay are used to decorate the piece.
Ebony inlay was frequently used, but the Flemish work of this period was nearly all in oak.
It is noticeable that in the rare pieces that are inlaid in the Late Tudor and Early Jacobean period the inlay itself is a sixteenth of an inch thick, whereas in later inlays of more modern days the inlay is thinner and flimsier.
Upon the surface of this metal inlay further ornamentation was chased with the burin.
The inlay is let into the wood of which the piece inlaid is composed.
When he used mahogany he realised the beauty of effect the dark wood would give to inlay of lighter coloured woods, or even of brass.
This inlay is very coarsely done, and unworthy to compare with Italian marquetry of contemporary date, or of an earlier period.
The geometrical inlay is a tradition which Oeben left to his successors.
A piece of a large tile, and part of a glazed vase, have the royal titles and name of Menes, originally in violet inlay in green glaze.
And a profusion of forms is shown by the moulds and actual examples, for necklaces, decorations, inlayin stone and applied reliefs on vases.
Lightly polished, or waxed, the cheap foreign oaks often produce very agreeable results, especially when there is applied to them a simple inlay of boxwood and stained holly, or a modern form of pewter.
Nearly a generation before then Boulle was developing in France the splendid and palatial method of inlay which, although he did not invent it, is inseparably associated with his name.
The basis of his first idea, he explains, was in a large way to recall the inlay of precious stones that are set in jade by Eastern artists.
With inlay and carved marble, with glass and colour, the Kings who took their pleasure in that now desolate pile, made all that their eyes rested upon royal and superb.
It was only when I stooped to examine the sunk catch of a screen that I saw it was a plaque of inlay work representing two white cranes feeding on fish.
Our last visit was paid to the largest establishment in Kioto, where boys made gold inlay on iron, sitting in camphor-wood verandahs overlooking a garden lovelier than any that had gone before.
In other pieces the inlay took the form of geometrical, floral, and animal patterns, combined with the warmer and more beautiful tints of the exotic woods.
To Heppelwhite we must also give credit for the most refined and tasteful use of inlay and of veneers to be found in English furniture.
Heppelwhite also made abundant use of a Prince of Wales feather in delicate carving, combined with an inlay of colored woods.
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