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A further type of inlay is known as 'cross-banding'. It consists of a band of inlaid wood, often to be found at the edges of a table-top, in which the grain of the wood runs outwards.

Fig. 1. Walnut veneers quartered, with a line of herring-bone or 'feather banding', and cross-banding at the bottom.

Inlaying with a narrow strip of brass was done occasionally in the eighteenth century, but mostly in Regency times when
more ambitious shapes, such as stars, were attempted also. It was very popular, and is looked on now as a feature of the period.

Mouldings

Mouldings varied in shape with each period, and their study will help to identify the date of a piece of furniture. The narrow half-round moulding found on the edges of many eighteenth-century drawers is known as *cock-beading'.

English Furniture

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