Traditional techniques

CARVING

Lettering with chisels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqATMrBvLn8

Chip carving

Basic technique for chips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs-G-VdvA7I

Chip carving lettering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbcmUKRBpTc

Relief carving

Josee carves a fleur de lys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHWlj-lGa1s

For Inspiration

Grinling Gibbons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ6tgxNU_gc

Green man carving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJjqyJqLsqs

Samples of Japanese low relief and architectural carving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyYYORtgJ7M

From Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqTWURfpiMc

MARQUETRY

Boulle method marquetry demonstrations 

(Victoria and Albert) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QErwp7TwsYI

(Art Institute of Chicago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GcXqcKVwk0
(Italian production of standard patterns) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lve3EAklr60

Pictorial marquetry

Window method using just a knife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6CBjVIOR0
Silas Kopf building up a picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScr9gAvULU

(includes curved pressing)

Japanese Hakone marquetry (Yosegi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvOMHoLRBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSPob8zm77Q

Iranian marquetry

Inlay (thick) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEd1Um-Wlwg

Khatam (geometry built from strips) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hie87sKuauc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6IhYKBvuJA

Moaragh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPmGzOvdsa4&t=3s

OTHER TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES TO EXPLORE

Chinese joinery

Chinese interlocking joinery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD6qdJNU7GE (FWW)

Greene&Greene and Chinese joinery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4pcEG1jqI

Step by step 3 way miter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDQ5eFW_rQ

Kumiko (Japanese fretwork) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7XHujlOs5Q

Greenwood joinery

https://www.westdean.org.uk/study/school-of-conservation/blog/furniture/seventeenth-century-joinery-from-log-to-stool