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Shell carving is a motif meant to look like sea shells. A popular adonnment on eighteenth-century antiques, the scallop shell, remains an attractive adornment on period furniture produced today.

RWS’ Furniture SIG will be most interested in the opportunity to practice this technique, Chuck Bender will be our guest National Workshop instructor this event.

Sulfer Inlay?
The technique, also known as, “poor man’s inlay,” uses elemental sulfur as inlay material. The vast majority of period examples hail not far here Lancaster PA. This workshop will also include a presentation about this little known inlay technique.