Bandings:

Bandings and inlays can transform a plain panel into an attractive piece of decorative woodwork in the traditional manner.

Bandings are plain or patterend strips of veneer used to create decorative borders.
You can make your own, but commercially produced bandings offer a wide choice and come ready to use.

Lines and Bandings.

Commercially produced decorative inlay bandings are made in batches from selected woods.
Always buy sufficient when you first order, as you may not be able to obtain an exact match at a later date.
Not only will the wood be different but the size may vary too.

Stringing.

Stringings are fine strips of wood used to divide areas of veneer by providing light or dark lines between different types of veneer or where the grain direction changes.

Ebony and boxwood were the traditional materials for stringings, but nowadays black dyed wood is used instead of ebony.

Bandings.

Decorative bandings are made from side grain sections of coloured woods glued to together and sliced to produced strips approximately 1mm thick.

They come ready edged, with a choice of boxwood or black stringings, and are used to make ornamental borders.
Strips of veneer cut across the grain are known as cross bandings and are used to make bordered panels.

Make cross bandings yourself, cutting them from the veneer used for the panel.