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This article is about the form of wood inlaying. For the knitting technique, please see Intarsia (knitting) . Intarsia is a form of wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry . It is believed to have developed in Sicily , and the art was widely practised in Italy from around 1400 to 1600 . It is the craft of using varied shapes, sizes and species of wood fitted together to create...
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Intarsia (knitting)

Intarsia is a knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. As with the eponymous woodworking technique , fields of different colours and materials appear to be inlaid in one another, but are in fact all separate pieces, fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. An argyle sock, knit using intarsia The inside of the same argyle sock, showing the lack of carried strands...
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Duomo di Siena

...white and black marble. The inlaid marble floor, parts of which were designed by Domenico Becafumi, is one of the most ornate of its kind in Italy, using black, white, green, red and blue marble intarsia . The Siena pulpit, made of Carrara marble, was sculpted by Nicola Pisano and was completed in 1268 . The pulpit is octagonal in shape and supported by lions. The scenes on the pulpit show...
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List of works by August Derleth

...of R'lyeh (1957) Halloween for Mr. Faulkner (1959) Lovecraft and "The Pacer" (excerpt) (1959) The Shuttered Room (1959) with H.P. Lovecraft Miss Esperson (1962)as Stephen Grendon The Adventure of the Intarsia Box (1964) By Rocket to the Moon (1965) The Dark Brotherhood (1966) with H.P. Lovecraft Ferguson's Capsules (1966) The Horror from the Middle Span (1967) with H.P. Lovecraft The House in...
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Argyle (pattern)

... "Argyle" by itself can be used to refer to socks knit in an argyle pattern, but knit argyle sweaters or vests are also common. As a knitting pattern, argyle is generally accomplished using the intarsia technique , and more about the process can be found in that article. The argyle pattern is said to derive from the tartan of Clan Campbell , of (traditional) county Argyll in western Scotland...
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Fair Isle (technique)

...follow these rules are "true" Fair Isle, but in modern usage the term is generally understood to include any pattern that uses the same general idea. Other techniques for knitting in colour include intarsia , slip-stitch colour, and double knitting. How it's done Basic two-colour Fair Isle requires no new techniques beyond the basic knit stitch. (The purl stitch is not used.) At each knit stitch...
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List of English words of Italian origin

... from galleria , ="arcade" gesso   from gesso , ="chalk" impasto   from impasto , ="dough, paste" intaglio   from intaglio , ="cutting, engraving" intarsia   from intarsio , ="inlaying, marquetry" loggia   from loggia magenta   from the town of Magenta, Italy mezzanine   from mezzanino mezzotint   from...
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Urbino

...stuccoed rooms, the richly sculptured doorways, chimneys and friezes stand apart, executed by Domenico Rosselli of Florence, Ambrogio d'Antonio of Milan and their workshops. The beautifully executed intarsia work of the Duke's small study (the Studiolo ), with trompe-l'oeil shelves and half-open latticework doors display symbolic objects representing the Arts, is the single most famous example...
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Basilica of the Holy House

... Guido Reni and other works of art. In the sacristies on each side of the right transept are frescoes , on the right by Melozzo da Forli , on the left by Luca Signorelli . In both are fine intarsias . The basilica as a whole is thus a collaborative masterpiece by generations of architects and artists. The Santa Casa The main attraction of Loreto is, however, the Holy House itself...
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Ducal Palace

...stuccoed rooms, the richly sculptured doorways, chimneys and friezes stand apart, executed by Domenico Rosselli of Florence, Ambrogio d'Antonio of Milan and their workshops. The beautifully executed intarsia work of the Duke's small study (the Studiolo ), with trompe-l'oeil shelves and half-open latticework doors display symbolic objects representing the Arts, is the single most famous example...
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