Mystery solved!

[Frank&Earnest]

My search for the culprit of hijacking the word "intarsia" to represent something it isn't has ended. And, surprise surprise, it is another US marketing gimmick:

http://www.woodmagazine.com/wood/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/wood/story/data/75.xml (http://www.woodmagazine.com/wood/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/wood/story/data/75.xml)

No wonder all dictionaries still stick to the historical definition, the theft is relatively recent:

"In 1984, Judy Gale Roberts moved to Florida with husband-to-be Jerry Booher. There she refined the design elements of her work in wood, which is a modern-day interpretation of a 15th-century Italian art form called intarsia.
The intarsia of Judy Gale Roberts differs from the original in that she sculpts each wooden piece to a third dimension by sanding."

I hope somebody will have the decency of cleaning up the cr*p in Wikipedia.

[mongrell]

give it a rest frank :doh:

[WoodGirl]

I hope somebody will have the decency of cleaning up the cr*p in Wikipedia.


Should keep you busy for awhile Frank :cool:

[sailingamerican]

My search for the culprit of hijacking the word "intarsia" to represent something it isn't has ended. And, surprise surprise, it is another US marketing gimmick:

http://www.woodmagazine.com/wood/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/wood/story/data/75.xml (http://www.woodmagazine.com/wood/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/wood/story/data/75.xml)

No wonder all dictionaries still stick to the historical definition, the theft is relatively recent:

"In 1984, Judy Gale Roberts moved to Florida with husband-to-be Jerry Booher. There she refined the design elements of her work in wood, which is a modern-day interpretation of a 15th-century Italian art form called intarsia.
The intarsia of Judy Gale Roberts differs from the original in that she sculpts each wooden piece to a third dimension by sanding."

I hope somebody will have the decency of cleaning up the cr*p in Wikipedia.



Wikipedia is a site anyone can make a post. There are thousand of W's sites with wrong information. If you want you should be able to psot there unless something has changed as of late.

[Buzza]

I refuse to use the word Calamari for SQUID! :(

Funnily enough, everyone knows what I'm talking about when I say squid.

Was Judy Gale the first person to do this? I doubt it, but we know what the rounded adges do for this form of art. :)

[Frank&Earnest]

I refuse to use the word Calamari for SQUID! :(


... but have you tried sanding the edges of the tentacles? :D