TLE 6

• Importance of enhancing and decorating bamboo, wood, and metal products

  • Finished products
  • Enhanced and decorated finished products
• Enhancing and decorating bamboo, wood, and metal products

  • Makes finished products more saleable to customers
  • Helps finished products withstand harsh elements
  • Beautifies the product itself
• Woodturning


  1. Using a lathe to make various forms and shapes of wood

  2. Considered a woodcraft

  3. Requires sharp objects like knives, gouges, and chisels
• Hand carving


  A technique in which a craftsperson uses hand tools to create designs and textures on wood surfaces
• Pyrography


  Using burn and heat to decorate wood or leather
• Flocking


  Lining the interior of drawers and boxes with a velvety finish
• Inlaying


  Combining several techniques that revolve around inserting decorative pieces into a base to create a new design
• Gilding


  Decorative technique on wood using methods like water gilding, chemical gilding, and electroplating
• Staining


  1. Coloring wood to give an even or varied texture

  2. Can be water-based or pigment-based
• Painting


  1. Simplest way of decorating wood

  2. Can add a lacquer for a shiny and glossy finish
• Engraving


  Transferring a design into the surface of metal using tools called burins or gravers
• Etching


  Process used to make designs or pictures on a metal plate by using corrosive chemicals
• Adding metal


  Enhancing products such as wood by applying metal paints, foils, or powders
• Texturing and embossing


  Using stamps, stencils, and other materials to imprint designs on metal