Handcrafted stand mirror is perfect for a vanity top or anywhere you need a quick peek at yourself. Makes a really nice gift. This one measures 6.5 x 6 x 3.5 and is made of beautiful Quilt Maple, priced at $90.

Quilt is a pattern that almost looks like bubbling on the surface of the wood. Most often found in big leaf maple, quilted figure is another highly sought-after quality by guitar makers and luthiers; a quilted-top guitar can often double or triple the price of one without.

Quilt figuring is seen on the tangential plane (flat-sawn.) The highest quality quilted figure is found in the Western Big Leaf species of maple. It is a distortion of the grain pattern itself. Prized for its beauty, it is used frequently in the manufacturing of musical instruments, especially guitars.

The bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) is native to western North America, from southern Alaska to southern California and into the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada.