Boulle Marquetry refers to the inlay techniques developed by the French craftsman Andre Charle Boulle in the 17th century. Find out how this decorative technique is crafted.
Simply fantastic! The extremely good craftsman let it look really easy to do! Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all involved people!
The shop I worked in used to see this stuff come in every once in a while. Just garbaged. I was tasked with restoring them as much as possible, and we used resins and melted them together to simulate tortoise shell. When done correctly, you couldn't tell when the fix was. Took. Forever.
I used to buy old broken down boxes etc from flea markets and strip the tortoishell off for these kind of repairs. Mostly the brass springs up and the tortoishell is usually still there if your lucky.. You can buy fake tortoishell these days...
@@wombleofwimbledon5442 You can buy brass sheet of any thickness. I used to use tormaline to dull it down to get that silvery look of old brass. I'd also rough up the back and put lemon juice on it overnight which made it stick better. Boulle repairs are a nightmare for restorers mainly because its virtually impossible to get it totally flat once its sprung..
When I embellish a piece of furniture I do it all completely by hand no stencils of any kind are used. I first do a free hand drawing, then I glance at it before penciling in my design before I etch and paint.
How do you hide the initial saw cut you made to reach the design? (This will show up in the two outer layers of the packet? Do you hide i over with charcoal? I suppose you could start the cut in the middle of the design somehow.
I'm interested to know why your using a hand saw? I've been a marquetry maker and designer for 25 years and have always used an electric saw. Saves a huge amount of time...
In the V&A films they use the same techniques and materials, such as glues, as used when the artifacts were made. No electric saws in the 18th century.
Absolutely wrong idea that mechanical saw is going faster than hand saw. It is just different. If you think that, maybe you are not enough confortable with it.
@@bourgineflorian The skills involved are equally challenging but as you say, different. Back in the 17th/18th centuries the makers would have had much more time as you see in the video but I'm certain if mechanical saws were available they would have used them. When I worked in the furniture industry I'd get paid about 70 pence for an inlaid shell so I'd have to produce about 120 per day to make anything like a decent wage. This could not be achieved using a hand saw for the simple reason it would be too exhusting and the quality would degrade as the day went by. Now they use laser cutters so even my skills aren't fast enough.
@@chrismalcomson7640 the speed is limited by you, not the saw. Its stricly impossible to follow the marquetry lines at the speed a mechanical saw is able to cut (maybe 2cm per seconde or so..). The blades quality and size are also important depending the project
Es una sierra de marquetería montada en un caballete, al parecer es específico para marquetería. Supongo que con más técnica se puede cortar con una sierra "al aire"
No more killing of wildlife (sea-turtles, tortoises, elephants) simply for fun and luxury, in this case, for decoration only! This is a totally different story than our hunter-gatherer past. Why do we think we are so entiled?
Nothing, but a 'Wow' - especially to the fine saw cutting of the pattern. (shake head in amazement)
Simply fantastic! The extremely good craftsman let it look really easy to do! Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all involved people!
Wow! Just wow!
That was very insightful. Beautifully crafted. Very interesting and fascinating to watch.
Thanks so much for the video!
Fascinating!! Thanks for sharing this and well done, Yannick Chastang!!
The shop I worked in used to see this stuff come in every once in a while. Just garbaged. I was tasked with restoring them as much as possible, and we used resins and melted them together to simulate tortoise shell. When done correctly, you couldn't tell when the fix was. Took. Forever.
I used to buy old broken down boxes etc from flea markets and strip the tortoishell off for these kind of repairs. Mostly the brass springs up and the tortoishell is usually still there if your lucky.. You can buy fake tortoishell these days...
@@chrismalcomson7640 that brass tho. Lol. It stretched AND work-hardened.
@@wombleofwimbledon5442 You can buy brass sheet of any thickness. I used to use tormaline to dull it down to get that silvery look of old brass. I'd also rough up the back and put lemon juice on it overnight which made it stick better. Boulle repairs are a nightmare for restorers mainly because its virtually impossible to get it totally flat once its sprung..
As a historic furniture conservator I've done my fair share of these. Love/hate affair. Love the work but my hands suffer from it. Pacing required.
Very nice! Hope you will make more videos so we can learn from you! Thank you very much.
I just love love love these videos. . . thanks V&A!!!
I didn't realise the process was so simple.
Love it !
André charles boulle was and still the best ébéniste in the history
I could watch this for hours
Brilliant and wonderful insight into the V&As back-room skills. :) Ticked and subscribed, great stuff :)
Wonderful
Told, but not explained?
Glue?
Process detail?
More complete version please.
very nice job
There must be a layer of lacquer or something on top to keep the charcoal details, or do the pieces have to be re-charcoaled after each cleaning?
When I embellish a piece of furniture I do it all completely by hand no stencils of any kind are used. I first do a free hand drawing, then I glance at it before penciling in my design before I etch and paint.
Good for you Gloria.
Donde encuentro más videos como esos?
How do you hide the initial saw cut you made to reach the design? (This will show up in the two outer layers of the packet? Do you hide i over with charcoal? I suppose you could start the cut in the middle of the design somehow.
Drill a hole and insert the saw through it
The glue is hide glue?
How to drill ?
🤯❤
That initial saw cut is very distracting to the piece
I'm interested to know why your using a hand saw? I've been a marquetry maker and designer for 25 years and have always used an electric saw. Saves a huge amount of time...
In the V&A films they use the same techniques and materials, such as glues, as used when the artifacts were made. No electric saws in the 18th century.
Absolutely wrong idea that mechanical saw is going faster than hand saw. It is just different. If you think that, maybe you are not enough confortable with it.
@@bourgineflorian The skills involved are equally challenging but as you say, different. Back in the 17th/18th centuries the makers would have had much more time as you see in the video but I'm certain if mechanical saws were available they would have used them. When I worked in the furniture industry I'd get paid about 70 pence for an inlaid shell so I'd have to produce about 120 per day to make anything like a decent wage. This could not be achieved using a hand saw for the simple reason it would be too exhusting and the quality would degrade as the day went by. Now they use laser cutters so even my skills aren't fast enough.
@@chrismalcomson7640 the speed is limited by you, not the saw. Its stricly impossible to follow the marquetry lines at the speed a mechanical saw is able to cut (maybe 2cm per seconde or so..). The blades quality and size are also important depending the project
1:30 ¿ alguien sabe el nombre de esa bella herramienta?
Es una sierra de marquetería montada en un caballete, al parecer es específico para marquetería. Supongo que con más técnica se puede cortar con una sierra "al aire"
To bad there is no sound.
I've seen this 😎😇🙌🌍
To think I went to the school by his name #humblebragnot
donkey?
oh donkey
No more killing of wildlife (sea-turtles, tortoises, elephants) simply for fun and luxury, in this case, for decoration only! This is a totally different story than our hunter-gatherer past. Why do we think we are so entiled?