Ireland 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Ireland 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Ireland 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Ireland 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Ireland 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Ireland 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 188.00
Size
16 x 20 in
Baltic birch, hand-stained water
Up to nine laser-cut birch layers
Carved bathymetric relief, laser-etched labels
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

A chart is a stack of flat sheets until the water's real soundings tell it what shape to take.

  1. SurveyReal bathymetric sounding data sets every contour line before a single cut is made.
  2. CutEach depth band is laser-cut from its own sheet of Baltic birch, up to nine layers deep.
  3. StainWater layers are stained by hand, reading darker the deeper the water runs.
  4. StackThe sheets are registered and stacked in sequence, and the bed's true shape rises out of the wood.
  5. EtchDepths and place names are burned into the grain itself, never printed on it.
  6. FrameA solid Baltic birch frame and acrylic glass finish the piece, ready to hang.

Ireland in laser-cut Baltic birch: the whole island carved one depth contour per layer, from Dublin Bay around the Wild Atlantic Way and back.

Ireland's west coast holds one of the longest defined coastal routes in the world, the Wild Atlantic Way, some 1,500 miles of headlands, bays, and islands where the ocean writes the weather and most of the conversation. The Cliffs of Moher wall off the Atlantic in County Clare, the Aran Islands hold their stone-field way of life offshore, and the great southwestern peninsulas, Dingle, Iveragh, Beara, comb into the swell like fingers. Dublin and Cork face their gentler seas to the east and south. On the chart, the drowned river valleys of the south coast and the fjord-like inlets of the west engrave the island's edge in honest intricacy.

Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.

Everyone with Irish roots knows their county. It is on here, coastline and all.

The engraving spans Dublin Bay, Cork Harbour, the southwest peninsulas, Galway Bay and the Arans, and the northern headlands. Neighbor across the water: the United Kingdom chart.

  • 16 × 20 in or 24.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame
  • Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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