making just one single flower can often take days of work, depending on the detail; it is not unusual to be designed from hundreds of different slices of stone. there are many varieties of coloured stone available for utilisation in marble inlay work: malachite, cornelian, jasper, mother of pearl, abalone
making just one single flower can often take days of work, depending on the detail; it is not unusual to be designed from hundreds of different slices of stone. there are many varieties of coloured stone available for utilisation in marble inlay work: malachite, cornelian, jasper, mother of pearl, abalone...
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