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Workshop at the Barn – Boulle Marquetry

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Boullework is the method of composing either pictorial or filigree marquetry employing metal sheet, usually brass, pewter or copper, with veneers of tortoiseshell.  Tortoiseshell is now a proscribed material after the CITES Treaty of 1975.  Instead we will make our own “tordonshell,” a convincing artificial material I invented for just this purpose, to make a pair of small marquetry panels, one the negative of the other.  Some projects may instead use ivory planks for either the metal sheet or the tortoiseshell.

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This three-day workshop will be limited to six participants, and will take place October 2-4, 2014, with a registration of $375.