The materials
Laguiole en Aubrac offers you a wide selection of materials to craft the handles of your knives, from the most traditional such as horn or wood to the modern choices such as carbon fiber, and even the most precious such as mammoth ivory.
Please be aware that each Laguiole en Aubrac product is unique. Woods, horns, shells and precious stones are natural materials whose patterns and colors cannot be reproduced identically.
Green Samba
The SAMBA material is a handmade marquetry. Each handle is composed of a succession of thin strips of colored wood creating a beautiful striped pattern. Available colors: yellow, brown, plum, pink, turquoise, and green.
Green camel bone
Robust and durable, colored camel bone offers vibrant shades. Naturally textured, the coloring provides lovely color variations. Available colors: brown, purple, blue, green, navy, and dark purple.
Wine coloured Poplar Burl
Tinted poplar burl is striking. The wood, once tinted, retains the unique texture and grain of the burl and offers beautiful colored shades. Available colors: blue, wine coloured, black, red, and green.
Teak
Teak is an exotic wood species well-known for its durability. Its wood is highly textured with a golden hue and fine, irregular dark grain.
Green Organic
Organic material is the unique and surprising combination of colored resin with Aubrac cow dung. This blend creates handles with beautiful, random, and highly contrasting patterns. Available colors: white, red, blue, green and grey.
Red marshmallow
Marshmallow is made of acrylic, a material resistant to everyday wear and tear and minor impacts. Its distinctive feature is its striped and swirling pattern, which gives knives an original aesthetic. Marshmallow is available in white, black, and red.
Brown camel bone
Robust and durable, colored camel bone offers vibrant shades. Naturally textured, the coloring provides lovely color variations. Available colors: brown, purple, blue, green, navy, and dark purple.
Purple lava stone
Lava stone is mesmerizing. Paired with colored resin, it offers beautiful contrasting patterns and a highly textured finish. Available colors: blue, brown, black, red, green, purple.
Black Wavy Maple
The distinctive feature of this variety of maple is the ripple formed by the wood fibers, resulting in pearlescent hues and lovely color variations. Available colors: blue, yellow, brown, natural, black, and red.
Olivewood
Olivewood is the choice of tradition and elegance. This emblematic wood is renowned for its strength and appreciated for its beauty, with its beautiful grain and golden color.
Blue Fusion
Fusion material is exceptional, made from genuine mammoth ivory. The ivory fragments are compressed and then immersed in colored resin for a unique finish while retaining the aesthetic characteristics of mammoth ivory. Available colors: blue, natural, grey.
Solid horn
Cow horn has always been part of knife history. The solid horn refers to robust section located at the upper part of the horn. Its color ranges from blonde to dark brown. It can be plain or nuanced; in the latter case, it's called flamed solid horn.
Ziricote
Ziricote is a beautiful wood with different shades of brown ranging from ice brown to chocolate. Its appearance is unique, with a magnificent dark veining that runs irregularly through the wood, creating attractive wavy patterns.
Vinestock
Vinestock is a wood with a unique aesthetic. It is highly textured with knots, deep veins and can sometimes be speckled. Its color varies considerably from light to dark brown.
Copper glitter acrylic
Acrylic is renowned for its glass-like transparency. This allows for endless combinations to create unique and astonishing handles. In this case, acrylic is paired with genuine gold, silver, or copper leaves for a glamorous and sophisticated look.
Amaranth
Amaranth wood attracts with its striking color. When exposed to light, the wood's almost white hue takes on intense shades of violet.
Purple camel bone
Robust and durable, colored camel bone offers vibrant shades. Naturally textured, the coloring provides lovely color variations. Available colors: brown, purple, blue, green, navy, and dark purple.
Grey Organic
Organic material is the unique and surprising combination of colored resin with Aubrac cow dung. This blend creates handles with beautiful, random, and highly contrasting patterns. Available colors: white, red, blue, green and grey.
Barrel
This wood comes from oak barrels, stained by red wine during the aging process in the cellar. The wine imparts its purple hues, more or less pronounced, onto the wood.
Pink Samba
The SAMBA material is a handmade marquetry. Each handle is composed of a succession of thin strips of colored wood creating a beautiful striped pattern. Available colors: yellow, brown, plum, pink, turquoise, and green.
Bocote
Bocote is a highly grained brown wood with gold and sometimes green highlights. Its very dark grain forms more or less regular striations along the length of the wood.
Juniper
Juniper wood is easily recognizable with its brown to orange color occasionally dotted with small dark spots. Juniper is particularly appreciated for its spicy scent reminiscent of pepper.
White Cactus
The hollow, openwork wood of the cactus is filled with a colored resin offering incomparable aesthetics. The beautiful grain of the cactus can be seen flowing randomly between the different colored inserts. Available colors: amber, white, blue, pink, grey, black and green.
Amboyna burl
A burl is a rounded outgrowth on the trunk of a tree marked by undulations and beautiful swirling patterns. Amboyna burl ranges from golden brown to dark red with darker veins.
Malachite
Fascinating, malachite stone is highly prized for its magnificent green color. When polished, it reveals various concentric rings and irregular ribbons of varying intensity. Malachite is a stone of calm and balance.
Popcorn
As its name suggests, Popcorn material is made from corn, which is coated with synthetic resin for an extraordinary finish. The knife handle comes in a range of warm colors, from gold to caramel.
White Organic
Organic material is the unique and surprising combination of colored resin with Aubrac cow dung. This blend creates handles with beautiful, random, and highly contrasting patterns. Available colors: white, red, blue, green and grey.
Thuja
Thuja wood is characterized by a reddish-brown hue dotted with dark eyes. The thuja's grain is irregular with swirling patterns, giving it incomparable beauty.
Green Cactus
The hollow, openwork wood of the cactus is filled with a colored resin offering incomparable aesthetics. The beautiful grain of the cactus can be seen flowing randomly between the different colored inserts. Available colors: amber, white, blue, pink, grey, black and green.
Oyster shell
Recycled oyster shells are crushed then dipped in resin to create extraordinary handles. The multitude of tiny pearly oyster pieces sparkle in the light, changing color in pale white and gray hues.
Amber Cactus
The hollow, openwork wood of the cactus is filled with a colored resin offering incomparable aesthetics. The beautiful grain of the cactus can be seen flowing randomly between the different colored inserts. Available colors: amber, white, blue, pink, grey, black and green.
Natural Wavy Maple
The distinctive feature of this variety of maple is the ripple formed by the wood fibers, resulting in pearlescent hues and lovely color variations. Available colors: blue, yellow, brown, natural, black, and red.
Yellow birchwood
Birch is a "madré" wood, meaning that it is veined or spotted with brown, giving a very beautiful effect. Birch staining gives the wood a fairly intense pigmentation. Colors available: blue, yellow, red and green.
Chestnut burl
The chestnut burl reveals sumptuous undulations with marked variations in shades ranging from beige to golden brown.
Wild cherry
Wild cherry is a valuable wood, prized for its compact texture and amber color. The wood is slightly wavy, with a straight grain and fine texture.
Royal Ebony
Royal ebony is among our precious materials. Its wood features a magnificent grain marked by black interlacing on a background of pale gold.
Green oak
The green oak wood is very dense and compact. It is recognizable by its pinkish stripes that cover the beige-colored wood.
Lime burl
Burls produce a highly textured wood, particularly sought after for its numerous knots. Lime burl is distinguished by its warm color with honey and golden tones.
Mammoth Ivory Crust
The crust is the outer part of the mammoth tusk. In contact with the ground for several millennia, ivory crust is particularly sought-after for its unique texture and colors.
Walnut burl
Walnut is recognized worldwide for its beauty and durability. The wood of walnut burl features a beautiful dark brown grain, and its color ranges through several shades of brown.
Mammoth molar
Mammoth molar is an amazing and precious material. It is composed of a multitude of irregular layers that form a unique and original texture. Mammoth molar can be colorful providing magnificent shades.
Apple
The apple tree is a dense wood with a light color in varying shades of beige. Its grain is very smooth and slightly wavy.
Red Poplar Burl
Tinted poplar burl is striking. The wood, once tinted, retains the unique texture and grain of the burl and offers beautiful colored shades. Available colors: blue, wine coloured, black, red, and green.
Grey Fusion
Fusion material is exceptional, made from genuine mammoth ivory. The ivory fragments are compressed and then immersed in colored resin for a unique finish while retaining the aesthetic characteristics of mammoth ivory. Available colors: blue, natural, grey.
Green lava stone
Lava stone is mesmerizing. Paired with colored resin, it offers beautiful contrasting patterns and a highly textured finish. Available colors: blue, brown, black, red, green, purple.
Warthog
The warthog tusk is a highly sought-after material of very high quality, prized for its hardness and natural beauty. Once polished, the warthog tusk reveals a beautiful natural grain. Its color is very light, ranging from white to beige, and may be surface-marked by lovely warm hues from camel to brown.
Bone
Bovine bone is a material often used in cutlery for its strength and hardness. The bone is lightly textured, and its color is very light, close to white. Each handle, however, remains unique with more or less intense pale yellow variations.
Birchwood
Birch is a dense, durable, light-colored wood, sometimes pinkish beige or pale yellow. Its grain is distinctive, with small brown spots that are rounded, wavy or pointed.
Elm burl
Stemming from an irregular outgrowth of the trunk, elm burl has numerous knots with attractive contrasting nuances. Its color is slightly pinkish.
Gold glitter acrylic
Acrylic is renowned for its glass-like transparency. This allows for endless combinations to create unique and astonishing handles. In this case, acrylic is paired with genuine gold, silver, or copper leaves for a glamorous and sophisticated look.
White marshmallow
La guimauve est de l’acrylique, une matière résistante à l’usure et aux petits chocs du quotidien. Sa particularité est son motif strié et tourbillonnant qui donne aux couteaux une esthétique originale. La guimauve est disponible en blanc, noir et rouge.
Pistachio
Pistachio, usually grown for its fruit, is also a particularly interesting tree for cutlery, offering excellent durability. Its wood, with very light sapwood, reveals elegant veining in brown hues with green highlights.
Brown lava stone
Lava stone is mesmerizing. Paired with colored resin, it offers beautiful contrasting patterns and a highly textured finish. Available colors: blue, brown, black, red, green, purple.
Ram crust
Ram's horn is a dense material with an original aesthetic. On a light-colored background, irregular groupings of cracks appear in shades of brown ranging from camel to dark brown.
Maple
The fibers of maple wood create multiple shimmering waves, producing beautiful golden hues.
Silver glitter acrylic
Acrylic is renowned for its glass-like transparency. This allows for endless combinations to create unique and astonishing handles. In this case, acrylic is paired with genuine gold, silver, or copper leaves for a glamorous and sophisticated look.
Pressed horn
Horn or pressed horn comes from the hollow part of the cow horn. Before being used, the material must be hot pressed to fill the voids and be transformed into a rectangular piece of material needed to shape the handle.
Deer wood
Deer wood has a rustic aesthetic and a naturally rough texture offering a very good grip. Against a background of light, almost white color, there are fairly thick brown veins forming random undulations on the surface of the knife handle.
Plum
Plum wood is distinguished by its brown color with reddish highlights. Its grain is more or less pronounced with purple hues and straight-grained.
Yellow Samba
The SAMBA material is a handmade marquetry. Each handle is composed of a succession of thin strips of colored wood creating a beautiful striped pattern. Available colors: yellow, brown, plum, pink, turquoise, and green.
Black Poplar burl
Tinted poplar burl is striking. The wood, once tinted, retains the unique texture and grain of the burl and offers beautiful colored shades. Available colors: blue, wine coloured, black, red, and green.
Natural Fusion
Fusion material is exceptional, made from genuine mammoth ivory. The ivory fragments are compressed and then immersed in colored resin for a unique finish while retaining the aesthetic characteristics of mammoth ivory. Available colors: blue, natural, grey.
Green birchwood
Birch is a "madré" wood, meaning that it is veined or spotted with brown, giving a very beautiful effect. Birch staining gives the wood a fairly intense pigmentation. Colors available: blue, yellow, red and green.
African Ironwood
African ironwood or azobe is an exotic hardwood. The wood's rusty color varies from red to purplish-brown and is dotted with very light-colored filaments.
Olivewood burl
Olivewood burl has a magnificent, pronounced grain. Its color is warmer than classic olive wood, ranging from golden to brown.
Brown Samba
The SAMBA material is a handmade marquetry. Each handle is composed of a succession of thin strips of colored wood creating a beautiful striped pattern. Available colors: yellow, brown, plum, pink, turquoise, and green.
Blue lava stone
Lava stone is mesmerizing. Paired with colored resin, it offers beautiful contrasting patterns and a highly textured finish. Available colors: blue, brown, black, red, green, purple.
Larimar
Larimar is a deep sky-blue stone with a lovely white veining. This natural stone is renowned for its soothing properties. Larimar symbolizes happiness and harmony.
Red Wavy Maple
The distinctive feature of this variety of maple is the ripple formed by the wood fibers, resulting in pearlescent hues and lovely color variations. Available colors: blue, yellow, brown, natural, black, and red.
Carbon fiber
Carbon fiber is a cutting-edge composite material, renowned for its exceptional strength and lightness. It is recognizable by its anthracite color and honeycomb pattern created by the carbon fibers.
Red lava stone
Lava stone is mesmerizing. Paired with colored resin, it offers beautiful contrasting patterns and a highly textured finish. Available colors: blue, brown, black, red, green, purple.
Aubrac Beech Wood
Aubrac beech wood has warm hues ranging from golden to camel. It comes from beech, the emblematic tree of the Aubrac plateau. Its distinctive feature is the black marbling, created by a fungus, that runs irregularly through the wood.
Blue glitter carbon
The combination of carbon and glitter resin creates a material that is both resistant and elegant. On an anthracite background, a multitude of silver, blue and red sequins stand out, giving the knife a unique, sparkling finish.
Boxwood
Boxwood is a very resistant and homogeneous wood with a pale yellow hue. Its grain is very smooth, revealing lemon-yellow nuances.
Grey Cactus
The hollow, openwork wood of the cactus is filled with a colored resin offering incomparable aesthetics. The beautiful grain of the cactus can be seen flowing randomly between the different colored inserts. Available colors: amber, white, blue, pink, grey, black and green.
Paperstone
Paperstone is made from 100% recycled paper and resin without petroleum-based products. Its color is black, making it an environmentally friendly, durable, and finely finished material.
Blue Wavy Maple
The distinctive feature of this variety of maple is the ripple formed by the wood fibers, resulting in pearlescent hues and lovely color variations. Available colors: blue, yellow, brown, natural, black, and red.
Red glitter carbon
The combination of carbon and glitter resin creates a material that is both resistant and elegant. On an anthracite background, a multitude of silver, blue and red sequins stand out, giving the knife a unique, sparkling finish.
Cork
The bark of the cork oak, from which cork is derived, possesses unique innate characteristics: it is both resistant, light, elastic, and waterproof.
Walnut
Walnut is a wood with slight veining and a straight to wavy grain. Its color is nuanced, mostly brown with shades of gray.
Ironwood
Ironwood is a very dense wood species with beautiful contrasts between ochre and dark brown. It's a rare material; its use requires waiting for several hundred years until the tree naturally dies.
Green Poplar Burl
Tinted poplar burl is striking. The wood, once tinted, retains the unique texture and grain of the burl and offers beautiful colored shades. Available colors: blue, wine coloured, black, red, and green.
Turquoise Samba
The SAMBA material is a handmade marquetry. Each handle is composed of a succession of thin strips of colored wood creating a beautiful striped pattern. Available colors: yellow, brown, plum, pink, turquoise, and green.
Ebony
Ebony wood is particularly sought after. It captivates with its dark and intense color along with a beautiful grain. Ebony is also a dense and heavy wood appreciated for its durability.
Black lava stone
Lava stone is mesmerizing. Paired with colored resin, it offers beautiful contrasting patterns and a highly textured finish. Available colors: blue, brown, black, red, green, purple.
Scallop shell
The scallop shell offers magnificent pinkish hues of varying intensity. Recycled scallop shells are crushed to form a multitude of irregular fragments, which are bonded together with a resin for a stunning result.
Navy camel bone
Robust and durable, colored camel bone offers vibrant shades. Naturally textured, the coloring provides lovely color variations. Available colors: brown, purple, blue, green, navy, and dark purple.
Wenge
Wenge has a very distinctive appearance and is thus easily recognizable. Its wood is finely striped with alternating very dark brown stripes and lighter ones of a glazed brown color. Wenge is a tropical hardwood that is both hard and dense.
Pink Cactus
The hollow, openwork wood of the cactus is filled with a colored resin offering incomparable aesthetics. The beautiful grain of the cactus can be seen flowing randomly between the different colored inserts. Available colors: amber, white, blue, pink, grey, black and green.
Dark purple
Robust and durable, colored camel bone offers vibrant shades. Naturally textured, the coloring provides lovely color variations. Available colors: brown, purple, blue, green, navy, and dark purple.
Oak
Oak is a strong, durable wood. It is recognized as one of the most beautiful tree species. Oak wood is highly textured, with a straight grain and light color.
Buffalo crust
Buffalo crust is a highly textured material with a rustic appearance. On a dark background, cracks and hollows can be seen, revealing the second, lighter layer of horn, ranging in color from brown to camel.
Silver glitter carbon
The combination of carbon and glitter resin creates a material that is both resistant and elegant. On an anthracite background, a multitude of silver, blue and red sequins stand out, giving the knife a unique, sparkling finish.
Heather
Heather is a heat-resistant species. The pink-orange wood can be speckled or streaked with darker shades: burgundy and wine-red.
Mussel shell
The handles of knives made from recycled mussel shells are dark in color and reveal beautiful blue reflections. One can discern the numerous pieces of mussel shell, previously ground, and then assembled with resin.
Blue Cactus
The hollow, openwork wood of the cactus is filled with a colored resin offering incomparable aesthetics. The beautiful grain of the cactus can be seen flowing randomly between the different colored inserts. Available colors: amber, white, blue, pink, grey, black and green.
Blue camel bone
Robust and durable, colored camel bone offers vibrant shades. Naturally textured, the coloring provides lovely color variations. Available colors: brown, purple, blue, green, navy, and dark purple.
Blue birchwood
Birch is a "madré" wood, meaning that it is veined or spotted with brown, giving a very beautiful effect. Birch staining gives the wood a fairly intense pigmentation. Colors available: blue, yellow, red and green.
Red Heart
Redheart is an exotic wood known for its stunning red color with darker brown and purple undertones. Its dense nature provides excellent resistance and durability.
Red Organic
Organic material is the unique and surprising combination of colored resin with Aubrac cow dung. This blend creates handles with beautiful, random, and highly contrasting patterns. Available colors: white, red, blue, green and grey.
Poplar burl
Poplar burl is characterized by a beautiful irregular speckling and is distinguished by its pearly beige grain, creating beautiful reflections on the wood.
Ironwood burl
Ironwood burl is a precious material, both durable and rare, appreciated for its unique aesthetics. The wood is harvested when the tree dies after several hundred years. Ironwood burl is characterized by a beautiful irregular grain and an intense brown color with reddish/orange highlights.
Plum Samba
The SAMBA material is a handmade marquetry. Each handle is composed of a succession of thin strips of colored wood creating a beautiful striped pattern. Available colors: yellow, brown, plum, pink, turquoise, and green.
Buffalo
Buffalo horn is very elegant, distinguished by its intense black color. Polishing gives the material a smooth feel that is very pleasant to hold and a glossy appearance. Sometimes buffalo horn is mottled with beautiful white filaments.
Paperwaves
Paperwaves is an astonishing material made from corrugated cardboard, dyed, and then mixed with resin for added strength. The handle of the knife in paperwaves is characterized by the formation of a multitude of scales in a beautiful range of blue hues.
Blue Poplar Burl
Tinted poplar burl is striking. The wood, once tinted, retains the unique texture and grain of the burl and offers beautiful colored shades. Available colors: blue, wine coloured, black, red, and green..
Red birchwood
Birch is a "madré" wood, meaning that it is veined or spotted with brown, giving a very beautiful effect. Birch staining gives the wood a fairly intense pigmentation. Colors available: blue, yellow, red and green.
Turquoise
Turquoise is a natural stone recognizable by its beautiful blue-green hue: a gentle blend between sky and lagoon. It has been used for millennia as an ornamental stone, particularly for its properties of protection and purification.
Black marshmallow
Marshmallow is made of acrylic, a material resistant to everyday wear and tear and minor impacts. Its distinctive feature is its striped and swirling pattern, which gives knives an original aesthetic. Marshmallow is available in white, black, and red.
Blue Organic
Organic material is the unique and surprising combination of colored resin with Aubrac cow dung. This blend creates handles with beautiful, random, and highly contrasting patterns. Available colors: white, red, blue, green and grey.
Brown Wavy Maple
The distinctive feature of this variety of maple is the ripple formed by the wood fibers, resulting in pearlescent hues and lovely color variations. Available colors: blue, yellow, brown, natural, black, and red.
Mammoth Ivory
Mammoth ivory is a precious material with a pearly white color, particularly appreciated in the world of cutlery. Derived from mammoth tusks, this material has crossed ages without degrading and thus possesses great resilience.
Black Cactus
The hollow, openwork wood of the cactus is filled with a colored resin offering incomparable aesthetics. The beautiful grain of the cactus can be seen flowing randomly between the different colored inserts. Available colors: amber, white, blue, pink, grey, black and green.
Yellow Wavy Maple
The distinctive feature of this variety of maple is the ripple formed by the wood fibers, resulting in pearlescent hues and lovely color variations. Available colors: blue, yellow, brown, natural, black, and red.
Amourette
Amourette wood has an easily recognizable mottled grain. Its color is russet, with shades of brown.
Mammoth bone
Mammoth bone is particularly rare. It is a stabilized fossil material for increased durability. Mammoth bone can be recognized by its many small scales, which form a mosaic of dark brown, sometimes black.
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