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  • straight

  • spiral

  • interlocked (roey grain)


, not to be confused with bird's eye maple]]
In addition there are a few special grain alignments, altogether occurring rarely, but more in some woods, known as "bird's eye", "quilted" and "fiddleback", "curly" or "tiger".

In describing the application of a woodworking technique to a given piece of wood, the direction of the technique may be:
  • with the grain

  • against the grain

  • across the grain



In a wider sense, the term grain may also be applied to the orientation of the cut, the way a given piece of wood has been sawn:
  • flat-grain: flat-sawn or plain sawn,

  • edge grain: quarter-sawn or rift-sawn or straight-grained, and

  • end grain.


Strictly speaking, grain is not the same as the " Figure " of wood.