Gesägte intarsia was especially preferred by the Hapsburg family. ![]() The intarsia technique evolved into gesägte intarsia (sawn intarsia) in Augsburg (Aguiló Alonso 2010), and spalted wood became a commodity of free trade in the area (Hellwag 1924). During the 15th and 16th centuries, Augsburg was an important political, commercial, and financial center where trade routes between Italy and Spain crossed. The technique was later passed on to Germany, and from there, it spread unevenly throughout Europe. The use of spalted wood in intarsia is thought to have developed in Italy in the 1400s. 2016) however, blue stains from Ophiostomatoid fungi and zone lines from a range of fungi were also utilized, albeit sparsely. Chlorociboria-stained wood was the most commonly utilized (Blanchette et al. In its modern definition, spalting is the process by which wood decay fungi make extracellular pigments in wood (Robinson et al. Wood stained by fungal pigments is defined as spalted wood. Noting Spain’s lack of production of spalted woodworks and the few pieces found in Peru, it is likely that this niche product did not move to Peru with Spanish colonists and may have instead come over later with English colonists in the 1800s when spalted wood was popular in that region. For this research, only one piece of spalted furniture was found in Peru, and it was of English origin. While numerous examples of spalted marquetry have previously been found in Spain, all were made by German artisans and imported to the country. This research sought to determine if the techniques or woodworks of the time moved to the viceroyalty of Peru. ![]() Although the use of spalted wood is well documented in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and England, little is known about how guild traditions migrated from Spain during European colonization. In Europe, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, intarsia and marquetry woodworks relied heavily on the use of spalted wood (wood colored by fungi) especially the blue-green stained wood from the Chlorociboria species.
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