Editing Tunbridge ware (section)

{{Short description|Form of decoratively inlaid woodwork}}
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[[File:Tunbridge ware banjo 1870 at Two Temple Place, Astor House.jpg|thumb|A Tunbridge ware banjo]]
'''Tunbridge ware''' is a form of decoratively inlaid [[woodworking|woodwork]], typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of [[Tonbridge]] and the spa town of [[Royal Tunbridge Wells]] in [[Kent]] in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a [[mosaic]] of many very small pieces of different coloured woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion.

There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the [[Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery]] in Tunbridge Wells.<ref name=tunbridgemuseum>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110725095834/http://www.tunbridgewellsmuseum.org/Default.aspx?page=1643 Tunbridge ware] Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery. Retrieved from archive at [[Wayback Machine]] 2016-12-24.</ref>