Editing Tunbridge ware (section)

==Techniques==
''[[Marquetry]]'' was an old technique which was continued by Nye and Barton to create images such as birds or butterflies.<ref name=tunbridgemuseum/>
[[File:Chlorociboria aeruginascens or Green Elfcup and fruiting bodies.JPG|thumb|x180px|'Green Oak' as caused by the fungus [[Chlorociboria aeruginascens]].]]
''Stickware'' and ''half-square mosaic'' was invented by James Burrows in about 1830: a bunch of wooden sticks of different colours, each having triangular or diamond-shaped cross section, were tightly glued together; in the case of stickware, the resulting block was dried, then turned to form an article such as the base of a pincushion. For half-square mosaic, thin slices were taken from the composite block, and applied to a surface.<ref name=tunbridgemuseum/><ref name=collector/><ref name=favourite/>

''[[Tesselate]]d mosaic'', was a development by James Burrows of half-square mosaic; it was adopted by George Wise and Edmund Nye. Minute tesserae were used to form a wide variety of geometric and pictorial designs.<ref name=tunbridgemuseum/><ref name=collector/>

Many sorts of wood were used for the various colours; about 40 were in regular use. Only natural colours were used; green was provided by "green oak", produced by the action of fungus on fallen [[oak]]. Designs for articles were often taken from designs of [[Berlin wool work]]. <ref name=tunbridgemuseum/><ref name=collector/>