parquetry

We can easily see how these same patterns may be further utilized as designs for inlaid tiles, or parquetry floors.

Perhaps the most elaborate type of English parquetry chest is that named after the vanished Palace of Nonesuch.

Occasionally a chest is seen which is inlaid with coloured woods, or with 107 geometrical parquetry.

We entered a fine hall, its floor of beautiful parquetry muffled with silken rugs.

It may be of tile or laid in alternate strips of different colored woods, with a border of parquetry.