inlacing
/ɪnˈleɪsɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of inlace: the act of ornamenting by inserting or setting in a decorative material.
- The artist is inlacing the frame with bits of abalone shell.
- He spent the afternoon inlacing the guitar with mother-of-pearl dots.
- They are inlacing the floor with geometric patterns of contrasting wood.
noun
- The process or result of decorating a surface by embedding materials into it.
- The inlacing of the chessboard took several weeks to complete.
- The inlacing on this vase is incredibly detailed.
- She learned the art of inlacing from her grandfather.