The history of the veneer

The history of the veneer

, According to the Merriam Webster dictionary the word plate dates from n / a, however, adding a thin sheet of a grain of a lower quality than wood craft wood is much more. Today, adding a veneer is common in many solid wood furniture high quality and less expensive items constructed from chipboard. A simple wooden plate can unify the look of a piece or design used as a decorative piece of art.

Veneer origin

Ancient Egyptians were the inventors of the wood veneer according to the company David R. Webb, a modern manufacturer of wood veneers. Although the Egyptians enjoyed the beauty of wood, trees were scarce in the region of the Nile Carefully exquisite wooden cutting into thin films could be made in delicate boxes, inlaid or applied to the top wood or materials less beautiful. Ken Melcher notes Harp Gallery that "fabulous veneer work in ebony" a dense forest, black, was placed in the tomb of King Tutankhamen. While warnings carpentry describes fragments n / a year’s wood veneer found in the tomb of King Semerkhet.

Renaissance Period

Starting around 1300 AD in Italy and continuing through Renaissance Europe, craftsmen developed sophisticated techniques to create details and inlaid wood veneer. "Pieces of exotic woods and burl grain" created intricate designs and pictorial scenes called marquetry inlay work, as Melcher. This became the signature building for the royal furniture.

XVII Century

During the seventeenth century, carpentry warnings describes how the development of advanced tools best art inlay. Thinner and thinner saw blades allowed for artisans to cut thinner veneer sheets and more intricate inlay pieces.

Eighteenth century

Changes in building styles of furniture manufacturing began in the eighteenth century, leading to changes in the technical sheet. WARNINGS carpentry notes how changes in the structure and drawer construction were more favorable for a "figurative plate" which was based on the beauty of the wood grain details of artists. However, at the end of the century George Hepplewhite and Thomas Sheraton were among the designers still creating meticulously inlaid neoclassical furniture.

XIX Century

"Chapa was used to make valuable woods like mahogany or walnut go further" by sticking to more common woods, as recorded by Melcher. The craftsmen were able to use any number of less desirable species of wood available including maple and birch wood recycling or other furniture. During this time, production began producing plywood, a wood veneer made of thin layers of wood glued sliced low grades together and often topped with a sheet of a better quality of precious wood. Records of Plywood and veneer Association (HPVA) which was the first piano factory began using plywood n / a

XX Century

Melcher describes how technological advances to cut a thin sheet began in the1970s. Today, a veneer slicing easily from the registry, so it's as thin as paper.