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{{Short description|Form of woodworking folk art}}

'''Lath art''' is a form of [[Engineering:Woodworking|woodworking]] [[Social:Folk art|folk art]] for making rustic pictures out of strips out of old "lath" from "[[Chemistry:Plaster|plaster]] and lath" walls. Today it is commonly made from lattice, lumber stickers and [[Earth:Weathering|weathered]] [[Engineering:Lobster trap|lobster trap]]s. Beach scenes and rural scenes are the most popular themes.

==Techniques==
  
Lath art has a lot in common with [[Engineering:Marquetry|marquetry]] and [[Engineering:Intarsia|intarsia]]. They are all woodworking hobbies to make pictures out of sections of wood, but marquetry  and intarsia use the wood grain as a design element, and lath art uses the direction of the lath stick and the colors of the stains as a design element.

== See also ==
*[[Chemistry:Parquetry|Parquetry]]
*[[Engineering:Scroll saw|Scroll saw]]
*Tunbridge ware


[[Category:Woodworking]]



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