I don’t know if anyone saw this over on Make, but wow… Fascinating how they are tiny sliced strips that are then arranged into triangular patterns and shaved to make inlay. Always wondered how such insanely intricate inlays could be made.
Oh, and I will add, when I read it (noting the hex pattern quickly) I read it as “Heirloom Tech: The Inlaid Micro Geometries of Catan” thinking these were over the top Settlers of Catan boards…
I knew of Tunbridge ware, an 18th century version, practised and named from near where I grew up, and It was ‘bad’ enough to see the band saw used to cut the slices in the Persian version (I wonder how thin the blade is, and hence the wastage ), but then to see the Japanese version using a plane - no wastage !!!