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Sulfur inlay
Decorative cabinetry technique
Sulfur inlay is a rarely used technique for decorative surface inlay in wooden cabinetmaking.
The technique originates in the 18th century, but was only used for a short period. Between 1765 and around 1820, German immigrant cabinetmakers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, used it to decorate the surface of chests.[1] The Deitrich chest of 1783 is now in the Smithsonian.[2]
Commercial reproducers of such chests may rarely re-create this inlay technique as well.[3]