报告题目：Historic Uses of Spalted Wood: Tracing the Influence of Europe to South American Countries
报告时间：2016年3月22日
报告地点：尼泊尔加德满都 尼泊尔学院
报告嘉宾：Sara C. Robinson，美国俄勒冈州立大学
 

摘要：

Spalted wood, wood colored through fungal colonization, was used extensively throughout Europe from the 1400s through the 1800s. The movement of the art form to North America has been extensively documented, however, nothing is known about how European immigrants, specifically those from Spain, Germany, and England, influenced wood design (intarsia and marquetry) during this same time frame. It is also unknown if South Americans natively used spalted wood. While the research is still ongoing, preliminary results indicate that the guild secrets of spalted wood from Europe did not carry over into South America, as the only artifacts found are in private collections and were brought over from Europe by the colonists. While spalted wood occurs with a high frequency in South American forests, from the rainforest to cloud forest, there is also no evidence yet to suggest that the wood was used natively. These results suggest that the interest in spalted wood in South America is a recent phenomenon driven by global economic trends and a new interest in unusual wood.