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2008 National Marquetry Exhibition
This
year's National Exhibition is being held at the Gladstone
Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The very friendly Staffs Group are
your hosts for this National Exhibition - and they will be providing
you with a with a wonderful and generous welcome.
For all the information you will
need, just click the link on the right that will take you to 2008
National Exhibition page on the Marquetry Society web site.
Don't forget to return here when you
have finished reading about the exhibition details >>>
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"2008 National Exhibition" |
April
2008 |
Tom's Easter General Knowledge Quiz
After
the success of his Yuletide general knowledge quiz, our resident
academician the professorial Tom Brewer has put his learned brain
once again to the task of testing our knowledge with 20 more of his
tantalising "Tom's Teasers".
The difficulty of those questions he
poses us really makes us think that Tom must, most certainly, be
eating plenty of fish for his tea!
Click the link on the right to see if
you can complete Tom's quiz without looking up the answers
beforehand! >>>
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"Tom's Easter Teasers" |
April
2008 |
Veneer Examples Over Half of a Century Old
A
short while ago one of our RMG members happened to stumble across a
veneer sample book from around the 1950's.
The book seems to have remained
unopened for many years, and as a consequence of this, it gives us
access to more than 80 examples of over 50 year old veneers that
have not been exposed to the damage of sunlight.
The veneers have all been
carefully scanned and the results are now available for you to
examine on our web site.
To see all 84 examples, just click
the link on the right >>>
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"50 year old veneer examples" |
March
2008 |
International Woodworking Exhibition
The
2008 International Woodworking Exhibition was held at Alexandra
Palace during February and proved to be very successful.
The Redbridge Group hosted the
Marquetry Society stand on the Saturday - and the throughput and
interest of marquetry minded visitors was beyond expectations.
To read a report, and see some photos
of the exhibition, just click the link on the right >>>
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"2008 Woodworker Show Report" |
February
2008 |
A Couple of "Near Six Footers"
A visitor
to this web site recently sent some photos to your editorial team of
some marquetry pictures he owns that are near on six feet tall each!
The detail of the work and the veneer
selection rather impressed us old codgers in the editorial team -
and so, not wishing to deprive you, our visitors, of the chance to
get a glimpse of these excellent works, we are including a couple of
them here for you to enjoy.
Simply click the link >>> |
"The Six Footers" |
January
2008 |
Chas's Money Boxes & Other Pieces
Chas
Baker has kindly allowed us access to his money box
and silhouette archives.
Chas has made dozens of these
marquetry pieces over the years, with the money boxes being
particularly cherished gifts for each of his grandchildren.
Click the link on the right for a
shortcut to Chas's Money Box & Silhouettes archive page >> |
"Chas's Money Boxes" |
December
2007 |
Yuletide General Knowledge Quiz
The
R M G's very own "fount of all knowledge" Tom Brewer has, for once,
been persuaded to put down his scapel and veneers for a few minutes
and set his great mind to a completely different task.
Your editorial team has, as of one
collective voice, requested Tom to make this a special festive
season by compiling one of his legendary quizzes especially for our
web site.
Tom, being the gentleman that he is,
has kindly obliged us with a real corker of a quiz.
To enjoy this quiz for yourself, just
click the link on the right, watch some of
those questions though, as the answers are not always what you would
first think >>
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"Tom's Top 20 Teasers" |
December
2007 |
Chas Baker's Musical Jewellery Boxes
As
many of you already know, our Chas
Baker is a wizard at making unusual gifts of a marquetry nature for
his family and friends.
One of our Redbridge Group recently
asked Chas to bring a sample of his famous "Musical Jewellery Boxes"
in for them to study.
While Chas's attention was distracted
for a few moments, our "tame photographer" craftily snapped a few
shots of the musical box for our web site. We are pleased to bring
these to you now. Just click the link on the right to see this
superb musical box.
We hope to encourage Chas to write a
piece about how he made them for a future update of this web site,
but, for the mean time, please enjoy the photos >>
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"Chas's Musical Jewellery Box" |
November
2007 |
Early National Exhibition Galleries
New Additions for November
Our November update includes 1978's
National Exhibition Gallery for you to visit
(in a cyber-world fashion of course!)
We know that many of you really enjoy
looking at the marquetry exhibits in the latest National Exhibition
Gallery. But, what of those Galleries of yesteryear, what's happened
to them?
Well, you'll be pleased to know that
we have dug into the archives and unearthed "a lorry load" of
National Exhibition photos from years gone by.
The photos from the early years are
rather variable in photographic quality, but with a little help from
"good old" Photoshop we have been able to make them very acceptable.
Unfortunately these early photos were all taken in black & white,
but to make them easier on the eye, we have given them a little
sepia tint to warm them up.
Click the link on the right to visit
the 1970 & 1978 Winner's Gallery >>
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"1978 National Exhibition
Winner's Gallery"
"1970 National Exhibition
Winner's Gallery" |
September
2007 |
Latest Tutorials & Demonstrations
Our Redbridge group members have been
hard at it over the holiday break and have produced two new
demonstrations and tutorials for you.
Dave Walker has once again produced
another definitive demonstration, this one being on the Taylor
method for producing convincing foliage on trees and bushes. But
would you believe, this technique actually involves hitting your
beautifully cut and mounted marquetry picture with a six inch nail
and a hammer!!
But don't despair because there is a
method behind this obvious madness - click the link on the right to
find out just what it is all about >>
Our professional draftsman Tom Brewer
has been persuaded to write us an article on the methods required to
draw ovals and egg shapes with just bits of string, a set of
compasses and a ruler!
Tom, being the gentleman that he is,
has kindly written the guide notes and done the drawings for us, so
all we've had to do is assemble the lot into a web site page - and
then present it to you. Click the link to read Tom's article >>
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"The Taylor Technique for
producing leaves on trees"
"How to draw ovals" |
August
2007 |
The 2007 National Exhibition Gallery
After all the waiting - here is the
2007 National Exhibition Gallery in all its splendour.
Although it is located on the
Marquetry Society web site, we are happy to be including a link that
will take you directly to Display Page 1 of the Gallery.
Display Page 1 opens up the
Beginner's Gallery where the galleries proceed consecutively up to
class 10a and then on to the "Selected Entries" Gallery. The
"Selected Entries" consist of nearly three dozen exhibits that just
narrowly missed gaining an award this year.
Every entry in the exhibition was
easily capable of winning an award but, as there is only a finite
amount of awards available to be given, there has of obvious
necessity to be a limited amount of winners.
We are pleased to say however, that a
little later on this year, all the remaining exhibition entries will
be added to the gallery for you to appreciate and enjoy.
Don't forget to return here when you
have finished visiting the 2007 Gallery by clicking our link on the
"Links Page". Enjoy your visit.
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http://www.marquetry.org/gallery.htm |
August
2007 |
The 2007 National Exhibition RMG Entries
We are pleased to be able to bring
you all 28 of our Redbridge Group entries from the 2007 National
Exhibition.
The exhibits are arranged in 3
display pages (you have already seen the 4
winners from the link in the box below) and by clicking
the link on the right, you will enter page 2 of the gallery where
you will find 10 of our exhibits plus links to the other display
pages. |
"Redbridge Marquetry Group
2007 National Exhibition
Entries in full" |
July
2007 |
Redbridge Group Winners
Redbridge Group enjoyed a respectable
level of success in this year's National Exhibition competitive
classes.
We had four winners, including a
first in Class 2.
We have "snaffled" copies of the
photos from the Marquetry Society gallery and we are including them
here for you as a sort of "sneak preview". We hope you enjoy them.
Just click the link on the right >> |
"Redbridge Group
2007
Winners" |
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(For April 2008) |
2008 Easter Holiday
Apologies for the previous error with
our Easter holiday dates. Although the Easter dates were correct, it
appears that the educational authority who controls holiday
allocation periods for our premises deferred the Easter holiday by 2
weeks this year to balance out the term times more conveniently.
The Redbridge Marquetry Group will be
taking its Easter holiday break directly after its last meeting for
this term on Wednesday 9th April 2008.
We will be returning to our rooms to
start our Spring/Summer term on Wednesday 23rd April 2008.
Although the group will be away from
their rooms during that 2 week period, our web site will still be
keeping you up to date with all the information concerning the RMG
and its membership. Just keep visiting this site for the latest RMG
news and chat. |
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June
2007 |
2007 National Marquetry Exhibition
The 2007 National Exhibition was a
wonderful success. We had so many visitors turn up to the exhibition
that we ran out of our initial quota of catalogues by the end of the
second day and had to have two more batches printed before the
exhibition drew to its close.
We offer a big gratitude of thanks to our printer for burning the
midnight oil for us on those two occasions and for responding to our
requests at such short notice. We are pleased to say that everyone
who wanted a catalogue was happily supplied with a catalogue.
Thanks must also go to all our sponsors for their
help in making the 2007 National Exhibition such a great success.
Click the report on the right for a short
photographic record of the event: |
"2007 National
Exhibition
Report" |
April
2007 |
Burr (Burl) Veneer Descriptions & Library
The latest page to our veneers
library and gallery describes and displays those most favoured of
marquetarian's veneers; the burrs!
Everyone seems to like burrs and we
thought it was about time for us to bring you a full page devoted
entirely to those outgrowths and warts that the trees themselves
(if they have any awareness)
would probably think of as ugly, but we contrarily, as the users of
those "tree warts" find immensely picturesque and beautiful!
Anyway, after our little flight of
fancy, let's take a look at those burrs / burls by clicking the link
on the right: |
"Burr (burl) veneers
descriptions" |
March
2007 |
The July 1981 Redbridge Group's Exhibition
One of our Redbridge Marquetry
Group's members has recently uncovered a cache of high quality
black and white photos which were taken at the very successful Fulwell Cross exhibition the
group held in July 1981.
This exhibition was the very first to be held by the group since its
formation in 1979 - and we are very pleased to say
that many of those original members from that 1979 formation are
still turning up regularly for our
weekly group meetings.
The infamous Charlie Good (a marquetarian held in the very highest
esteem) attended the exhibition and displayed a small selection of
his magnificent marquetry pictures.
We have started off this display with ten selected pictures for you to enjoy,
we will add more pictures with future updates. We hope you will enjoy
this first small selection as much as we do.
Click the link on the right to "visit the
1981 Exhibition": |
"Redbridge
Marquetry Group's
1981 Exhibition" |
February
2007 |
Veneer Descriptions & Library
And yet another new page of veneer descriptions and
"scanned" examples of those very veneers have been added to our web
site's veneer library with this update.
There are several examples of Burr (or
Burl) veneers in this selection.
Burr veneers are rightly prized for their distinctly attractive
appearance.
These veneers have a very unique place in marquetry.
Click the link on the right to visit the
veneer's pages: |
"Veneer descriptions
& library page 16" |
January
2007 |
Tunbridge Ware Exhibition
There is now a very interesting
article available for you to read concerning the highly successful
Tunbridge Ware exhibition recently held at historic Hever Castle.
Click the link on the right to read this
article:
Hever Castle is located just off the B2026 at Hever, Edenbridge,
Kent.
You can find more information by visiting their web site,
just click the link on the right to enter
the web site: |
"Tunbridge Ware
Exhibition"&
"Hever Castle" |
November
2006 |
Using a Scraper Demonstration
We promised you that we will be bringing you a
tutorial / demonstration on the uses of a scraper with this update.
Well, to prove that we are as good as our word - here it is!
You will find this is a very informative tutorial that really gets
into the veritable depths of it's subject.
Scrapers are truly invaluable for removing larger amounts of waste
material from your marquetry work than you could ever achieve with
cork blocks and abrasive papers in just a fraction of the time.
Click the link on the right for this
tutorial: |
"Scraper
Demonstration" |
September
2006 |
Tunbridge Ware Tutorial
In July 2006 we re-published a 50 year old article taken from the Marquetarian
magazine covering the subject of Tunbridge Ware.
Somewhat to our surprise the article proved to be very popular - so therefore in
response to this unexpected interest we have coerced
our Chief Instructor Alf Murtell into presenting a practical demonstration of the
methods needed to make a piece of Tunbridge Ware.
So it is that, with the help of our Stan Wiskin and his trusty band saw, we now bring you Alf
Murtell's
Tunbridge Ware tutorial. We feel sure you will thoroughly enjoy it.
Just click the link on the right for the tutorial: |
"Alf and Stan's
Tunbridge Ware
Tutorial" |
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January
2008
until
December
2008 |
Our Winter to Spring Term 2008
On Wednesday 9th January 2008 the Redbridge Marquetry
Group returned to their rooms for the winter to spring term.
We will not be taking another break until Easter, so if you are
in our area on a Wednesday evening, please do drop in and say hello
- we would love to meet you.
The Redbridge Group start their Easter
holidays after their last meeting for the winter term on the 9th
April 2008 and are then back in their
rooms on the 23rd April 2008 until they take their summer break
later in the year.
We will keep you posted of the dates when we do our April 2008 update. |
"Directions to our
Redbridge rooms" |
Spring/
Summer
2006
until
June
2007 |
2006 National Marquetry Exhibition
The 2006 National
Marquetry Exhibition gallery has now been published and is currently
available on the Marquetry Society web site.
Being the (ahem!) magnanimous people
that we are, we have decided to provide you with a link directly into that
gallery so that you don't have to go changing web sites to get there - by
the way, don't forget to return to us when you've finished visiting the
gallery.
Just click the link on the right for this
item: |
"2006 National Exhibition
Gallery"
Please note that this link will
now display the current
National Exhibition
Gallery only. |
Summer
2006 |
1957 Tunbridge Ware Article
Recently there
has been
rather a lot of interest shown in Tunbridge Ware by marquetry minded people.
This is a form of "woodwork" that can be used to reproduce a repetitive pattern
of a complex nature without going to the extremes of re-cutting the design time
and time again.
Tunbridge Ware is an attractive form of wood decoration and is well worth
studying.
Therefore, to help you gain an understanding of how this art is performed, we
have dug into the archives and unearthed an early article from The Marquetarian
published nearly 50 years ago - and revamped it for today's web site!
Thanks must obviously go to Mr A. Vigus for writing the original article -
and to The Marquetarian for making it available to us for publishing today.
Just click the link on the right for this
item: |
"Tunbridge Ware"
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Summer
2006 |
Marquetry Society Web Site
As
many of you know, we at the Redbridge Marquetry Group have taken
responsibility for, and are now producing, the Marquetry Society web site.
Since 10th June 2006 that web site has been operating from its new server and is
fully operational and, we are happy to say, it no longer suffers from those
"bandwidth Limit exceeded" messages that previously plagued it for the last week
of every month.
It is available from those two addresses displayed on the right, (you can use either one, they both
display the same content): |
http://www.marquetry.org
&
http://www.marquetry-society.org
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Spring
2006 |
Marquetry in the 1950's
A superb cache
of marquetry photos from the 1950's has been unearthed by one of our group
members.
There are quite a few National Exhibition pictures in the collection - and
we have taken the opportunity to republish a few here. The original photos are
somewhat 'time worn', but we have used a little computer magic and cleaned them
up for you.
Just click the link on the right for this
item:
While there, why not click the link at the bottom of that page to read a really
good article on finishing marquetry pictures in the 50's - it's very
educational, well worth reading!! |
"1950's Marquetry"
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Spring
2006 |
Judging Marquetry in the 1950's
We
thought that a little delve into intricacies of judging a "National"
in the early days of the Society would prove interesting. The
priorities have changed a fair amount over the years and make
fascinating reading - so, just click this link to read a genuine
report from the '50's
Just click the link on the right for this
item: |
"Judging a National Exhibition in
the 1950's" |
Spring
2006 |
Flattening Buckled Veneers Tutorial
Alf Murtell,
(our very own Mr Dynamite!) has produced
yet another tutorial for us. This tutorial is one that 'umpteen
visitors have requested - it is the one that demonstrates how to
flatten buckled and warped veneers. There are a few "ingredients"
required for the process - they are all listed at the bottom of the
tutorial - and, you will find that they are all easily available.
Just click the link on the right
for this item: |
"flattening buckled veneers"
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Spring
2006 |
Staircase House
Roy Murton,
(our venerable Chairman) has spent the last several months working on a
project for the Royal National Institute for the Blind which was a veneer
adorned scale model of Staircase House, Stockport.
This was an intriguing project and we are pleased to say that an
article describing it's construction is available on this web site.
Just click the link on the right
for this item: |
"Staircase House"
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Winter
2005/6 |
2006 Woodworker Show
In February 2006
the Redbridge Marquetry Group manned the Marquetry Society stand at the
Woodworking Show, Alexandra Palace.
The show was a great success and signed up many new members to the Marquetry
Society.
Our Dave Walker was one of the RMG members who demonstrated marquetry techniques
at the show - and he has compiled a superb report on the show for our web site.
To read Dave's report (and to view the photos)
Just click the link on the right
for this item: |
"Woodworking Show"
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Spring
2006 |
Veneer Reference Library
Another page of veneers and their descriptions
have been added to
our veneer reference library.
This latest batch of descriptions now takes us up to page 13 (or 12a for the
superstitious!) so, if you would like a quick peep at these new
descriptions,
Just click the link on the right
for this item: |
"Roy's veneers
p.12a!" |
Spring
2006 |
Other Works by our Members
Another new attraction we are adding
to this web site (for a trial period) is a Gallery page displaying the
alternate works of our Redbridge Group members.
These 'alternate works' comprise of things such as paintings and drawings which
could be used as the basis (or themes) for a marquetry picture.
We think they make an attractive addition to our web site. If you
would like to have a shortcut to the Gallery page displaying the
'alternate works'
Just click the link on the right
for this item: |
"Alternate works Gallery"
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Winter
2005/6 |
Bleaching Veneers Tutorial
Our
Alf Murtell did our Redbridge Group a superb demonstration of
bleaching techniques last week and we have recorded the demonstration as a
tutorial.
We have transcribed the full dialogue for you and included it as the text for
that same tutorial - we hope you like this approach because we think it adds a
more "being there" feel to the demonstration, you could almost feel that you are
there at the demonstration with us!.
Just click the link on the right for this
item: |
"Alf's bleaching tutorial"
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Winter
2005/6 |
Links Page Information
Some new additions have been added to our links
and artistic links pages. We have included a good supplier of exotic veneers and
packs of off cuts. Do take a look at their web site to see what we mean. There
is also a new addition to our artistic links page that we think you will enjoy.
Just click the "Useful Links" button at the bottom of this page to visit the
sites. |
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2005
and
ongoing
indefinitely |
Photos Enquiry
Can You Help Us? We are currently attempting
to locate photos of any of the marquetry pictures that were entered in the very
first National Exhibition of 1953. If you think that you may have a photo of any
of the exhibits would you mind helping us out with this quest and contacting our
editorial team with any details you may have of those very first exhibits.
You can e-mail us from this following link:
Just click the link on the right for this
item: |
"Redbridge Marquetry Group e-mail message"
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2005 |
Beginning of the Marquetry Society
A
Superb collection of hand written pages describing the beginnings
of the Marquetry Society have been discovered by one of our Redbridge Marquetry
Group members.
These papers detail how in 1952 an enquiring letter to a hobby magazine started
the whole thing off.
The papers describe the very first National Exhibition and provide a list of all
the winning pictures. There is a link to this page available the "Our History"
page.
Or, if you prefer a short cut,
Just click the link on the right for this
item:
(By the way, we have found some photos of
that first National Exhibition winner's work and we have added them as a link on
the above page. Do have a look, we think you'll enjoy them.)
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"The history of the Marquetry Society"
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2004
On-going |
Early News & Events Articles
You will find
that we have "cleaned up" this News & Events page so
that the items contained on this page are reasonably current and not "old
news". The earlier items, together with their links, are still available on a
companion page to this one.
To access that page just click the link on the right:
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"Earlier News and Events articles & Links"
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Site Map Information
Don't forget to make use of our
"site map" to take you to any page, sub page, article or illustration on
our site by just clicking on its name.
Just click the link on the right for this
item: |
"site
map" |
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On-going |
Visiting us at Redbridge
Why not come along and visit us at our rooms in the leafy Borough of
Redbridge.
You will receive a very warm welcome from all the members and you will be
able to see the art and craft of marquetry being performed by award winning
marquetarians.
You can find a map of our location on our "Contact Us" page.
Do come along and enjoy some of that legendary Redbridge hospitality, you
will be most welcome. |
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On-going |
Sending Enquiries
We are pleased to say that our editorial team is keeping very busy with
replying to, and answering, your e-mail questions and enquiries. Thanks for
sending them in, we appreciate your interest in our web site. We are always
available to answer your marquetry questions. All you need to do is just
click on the "Contact Us" button at the bottom of this page and use the
pre-addressed link to send us an e-mail, it's that easy! |
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On-going |
E-Mailing Us
If you are unable to get to one of our meetings but would like
to "have a chat" with us, please feel free to e-mail our editorial team (or
you can use our feedback form if you prefer) and our team will send you a
friendly (and hopefully useful!) reply if you would like one. In the
meantime, keep visiting this web site for all the latest news from the
Redbridge Marquetry Group. |
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March
2004 |
2004 Inter-Group
Competition Click the
link on the right to visit the stated page >> |
Inter Group Competition.
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April
2004 |
Our 25th
Anniversary Click the
link on the right to visit the stated page >> |
25th anniversary
report. |
2004 |
2004 National
Exhibition Report Click the
link on the right to visit the stated page >> |
The 2004 National.
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July
2005 |
Valentines House
Exhibition Click the
link on the right to visit the stated page >> |
Valentines House Exhibition
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