This one-of-a-kind guide leads beginners to success and offers spalting veterans fascinating info to improve their work. Spalting expert Robinson saves wood artists time and frustration by helping them quickly understand the mechanisms behind the transformations so they can best encourage coloration without much decay. It's all here: every tiny detail you need to know about home spalting, whether you're doing it in your yard, your bathroom, or a lab. Covers basic wood and fungal anatomy as well as the different types of spalting and their temperature/moisture content preferences, debunks myths, and offers detailed guidelines for every type of spalting—including laboratory-level spalting in just one hour. 128 pp | 296 color images