These woods are denser than water fine grained and high in oils and resins.
Chinese furniture wood types.
This meaningful simplicity was achieved without sacrificing comfort.
During the 80 s and 90 s the go to wood for a well grained look was rubberwood.
Its hardness is useful in making of table tops and cabinets.
It is a member of the rosewood family and is botanically classified as dalbergia odorifera.
Each type comes with a different set of characteristics in terms of color density grain and finishing.
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In premodern times the wood was know as huali or hualu.
These properties make them dimensionally stable hardwearing rot and insect resistant and when new highly fragrant.
Guide to choose the best for your furniture different types of wood for furniture both hardwood and softwood are available in the market.
Emit pleasant aromas naturally adding a touch of taste and grace.
Simple structure and minimal decoration set off the natural beauty of the wood.
Poorer provinces developed the lacquer technique to copy the dark color and style of the zitan or dark red sandlewood furniture.
Native chinese woods are primarily elmwood beechwood pine and fir with some mahogany and walnut.
It s just that the furniture market is very material driven the most valuable and precious of all of these materials are zitan and huanghuali two types of hardwood found among other places on china s largest island hainan.
Elmwood is a softer lumber than rosewood and native to northern china it is a medium density lumber that is denser than pine.
Classic chinese furniture is typically made of a class of hardwoods known collectively as rosewood 紅木 literally red wood.
Ming furniture features durable and precious woods such as red sandalwood and scented rose wood which.
Many other native woods are tried some with success and others not so much.