This is simple enough to understand, and goes with a posting on Orchid. So, Just the pics here. Click on the pictures twice to view them full size.
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Walking down the street in Florence, Italy a couple of weeks ago, Jo-Ann poked her head into a doorway and came and got us. “Hey, let’s check this out, she says…..” Turns out it was an old-school inlay shop – the sort that makes pictures and table tops and the like. VERY expensive, I’m afraid… I’ll mostly just post the pics we shot..
First the picture is drawn like a cartoon – hard black lines with white spaces. Then each element is carefull cut out of paper and used as a template or pattern on the stone slabs. Each piece is cut with the saw, and then assembly is with a beeswax mixture. Once we told the owner we were jewelers and I talked to him about my own stone experience, he opened his doors wide for us… Nice man, cool shop, old school work beautifully done.
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