Inlay

[Sarah]

To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry,choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; toform an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions.Look,how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of brightgold. Shak.But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay theirstory. Milton.

[Kai]

a decorative pattern put into the surface of an object:

[Renato]

Ornament (an object) by embedding pieces of a different material in it, flush with its surface.