Welcome to Jardin Puzzles. Home to beautifully crafted, heirloom quality, artistic wooden jigsaw puzzles. Each cut one piece at a time, each unique. From special shaped silhouette pieces to different cutting patterns to subtle tricks to befuddle the assembler, Jardin Puzzles has that and more to challenge today's puzzlers and puzzlers for generations to come.

Kokopelli's Serenade
by Kathy Cooney

Our puzzles come in all shapes and sizes. This challenging puzzle has an irregular edge resembling frayed parchment. The irregular border matches the cutting style making it difficult to tell which pieces are edge pieces. The drop-out sections don't help. There are also a couple of sections in the border that were double cut so that pieces fit in more than one place. You could be assembling a border that is totally incorrect. Sections are color-line-cut so as not to give too much of a hint where different colors meet. Then there are the slivers of Kokopelli and the little wolf in the moon. If you assemble parts of the side first, you'll fint the piece almost match but alas, not quite. Finally, just to add a bit of fun, there are nine figure pieces in the puzzle, placed appropriately, that complement the scene.

Colonial Lights
by Coleen Sgroi

It's snowing in the picture and it's definitely snowing in the puzzle. There are 48 snowflakes within, without and on the border of this puzzle. Forty six of them are the same size. They only fit one way. But then as you can see, there are a six that don't fit anywhere. They are just falling! We are not adverse to including a few extra pieces just for fun.

All of our puzzles are cut from flawless, top-grade, 1/4-inch mahogany plywood. Not only is it perfect on either side, there are no interior defects in the core. After mounting either a print, photo or other artwork to the wood, we hand-cut your puzzle, piece by piece, to your specifications. To get a tight fitting puzzle and the intricate small pieces of our cutting styles or your chosen figure pieces, we use a special blade 1+ that is only 8 thousands of an inch wide. Unless otherwise requested, we also include our signature piece, a stylized iris, which our cutter, Melinda Shebell, has signed on the back, with a number and date, to ensure authenticity.

One of our most difficult puzzles, this puzzle has over 30 dropouts. No corner or edge pieces and if you try to sort by color, it just won't work!
Once cut, your puzzle is assembled and inspected. The back is sanded and hand finished with multiple coats of oil and shellac to bring out the rich luster of the mahogany grain and to give the pieces a soft texture when putting the puzzle together. We make sure the back of the puzzle is as nice to look at as the front.

This puzzle was cut in a curl style. It is a layered puzzle. The back shows mahogany, walnut and cherry wood, each a different layers are all hand finished to perfection.