Parchin kari, or pietra dura in Italian, is the art of marble inlay, which involves carving out marble slabs and inserting precious and semiprecious stones to create elaborate floral and geometric ...

The decorative wood carving and inlay art of Hoshiarpur in the Doaba region of the Indian state of Punjab has been world-renowned for centuries. However, environmental protection on rare wood as well ...

UNCLE HO: Chuôn Ngọ Village is renowned for exquisite mother-of-pearl inlay crafts on wooden objects or seashells, especially truyền thần (photorealistic portraits) of celebrated figures in history.

Ceramics artist Reinhardt debuts with a helpful primer on ceramic surface design techniques. These include additive and subtractive relief (adding clay shapes to or carving out clay from the surface ...