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Quilt orquilted maple refers to a type offigure inmaple wood. It is seen on the tangential plane (flat-sawn) and looks like a wavy "quilted" pattern, often similar to ripples on water. The highest quality quilted figure is found in the WesternBig Leaf species of maple.^[1] It is a distortion of thegrain pattern itself. Prized for its beauty, it is used frequently in the manufacturing ofmusical instruments, especially guitars.

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