The Wooden World Map — Multicolour
A map you don’t hang. You install it.
Artlas makes layered wooden world maps. Each map is laser cut from birch ply, finished in three tones, UV printed, hand finished, and boxed flat.
The depth is physical. Layers at 4, 8 and 12 mm cast shadow on each other, so the map changes through the day as the light moves across it. Neighbouring countries are set in different tones and depths wherever they share a border in multicolour maps — that is what separates them by eye, rather than a printed line.
There is no frame and no glass. Each continent mounts flat to the wall on its own, so the map takes the shape of your wall instead of a rectangle.
Birch ply, three tones, three depths. Birch tone at 4 mm, teak tone at 8 mm, walnut tone at 12 mm. Landmasses are spread across all three.
Real coastlines. Bays, inlets and small islands are cut as they are, instead of being smoothed into shapes that are easier to produce.
Cut to 0.01 mm. Laser precision, hand-finished edges, joins you cannot feel.
Names printed on the wood. Wayfarer is continents only, with no names. Navigator carries country names and international borders. Odyssey adds state names and capital cities. All names are UV printed straight onto the surface — not stickers, not engraving.
Drawn from real cartography. Built on Natural Earth’s 1:10m dataset — the reference set professional map-makers work from.
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