What are the commonly used wood for antique furniture?

China is a country with a long history, of course, in this long history there is a lot to recall, many people prefer the traditional culture of China, so those who like the old culture like some of the more antique furniture, and in the production of antique furniture, the choice of wood for the production of antique furniture is essential, then you know how much antique furniture? Do you know what wood is commonly used in the production of antique furniture? Do you know the production of antique furniture using which wood is better?

What are the common wood used in antique furniture?

Sandalwood

Sandalwood from India, the Philippines, Guangdong, the Malay Peninsula, Thailand, is an evergreen sub-tree, is the country since ancient times that the most valuable wood. Rosewood material is dense and hard, into the water that is sunken, heartwood bright red or orange-red, long exposure to the air becomes purple reddish-brown stripes, fine floating texture, endless changes, aromatic, but also valuable medicinal herbs, with which it is made of chairs, sofas and the efficacy of the treatment of injuries. Our country since ancient times that is considered rosewood is the most valuable wood. Due to too expensive, so rosewood objects remain less. If it is large furniture, because the material is difficult to obtain, the retention of less, rosewood in a variety of hardwood in the texture of the hardest, the weight of the heaviest, in addition to more than purple-black color, some of the black as lacquer, almost invisible texture. Not as gorgeous as Huanghuali, but the quiet ancient, is any wood can not be compared to doubt. In a variety of hardwood in rosewood texture is the most dense, the weight of the wood is the most heavy, wood grain is not obvious. Rosewood wood flowers in white wine, wood flowers will immediately decompose into pink, and with the wine to form a more viscous gel, pouring can be connected to the line. This is an effective way to identify rosewood, rosewood origin is mainly in India, China's Yunnan, two Guangzhou and other places also have production.

Cypress

Cypress belongs to the cypress family, the ancient "Yuebai" said, there are flat cypress, cypress, cypress, cypress and other species. China's folk customary cypress tree is divided into two categories of cypress and northern cypress, southern cypress texture is better than the northern cypress. Its color is orange-yellow, fine texture, fine texture, relatively water-resistant, more scars, scented, but also a kind of medicinal herbs. Its nature does not lift and crack, resistant to decay, suitable for carving plates, is a more valuable material species outside the hardwood.

Old mahogany

Mahogany in Guangdong is called "sour branch",? North of the Yangtze River is called mahogany, and Huanghuali belongs to the same leguminous plants in the genus Pterocarpus, produced in India, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries, is now the most common type of hardwood, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty after the widespread use of one of the precious tree species. Redwood heartwood orange, light reddish-brown, reddish-brown, purple-red, purple-brown to black-brown, the material color is not uniform, dark stripes obvious, the material is hard, wear-resistant, sinking in water. Redwood has old and new. Old mahogany similar to rosewood, but the luster is darker, lighter color, aroma, but not as rich as Huanghuali. New mahogany color reddish yellow, patterned, sometimes quite like huanghuali. Mahogany for the tropics, legume sandalwood wood, mainly produced in India,? China's guangdong,? Yunnan and the Nanyang Islands are also produced, is a common valuable hardwood." Redwood" is the popular name of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the north, the Guangdong area commonly known as "sour wood". Redwood wood is hard and durable. Mahogany is a high-quality hardwood, its varieties and names up to dozens of species: such as sour branch, mahogany, old mahogany, new mahogany, fragrant mahogany, rosewood, old rosewood and so on. The old mahogany is close to rosewood, but the luster is darker, lighter in color, the texture is not compact, and has a fragrance.

Huanghuali

Huanghuali, also known as the descending yellow sandalwood, mainly produced in China's Hainan Province, belongs to the leguminous plant pteridophyte subfamily yellow sandalwood genus, is the Ming and the early Qing Dynasty examined the main material of furniture. Huanghuali wood solid, color from light yellow to purple red, bright color, clear texture, scented, sawing, fragrant. In the Ming and Qing dynasty furniture in the preferred material is yellow pear wood, ? This material color is not quiet and noisy,? Texture or hidden or present, vivid and varied, yellow pear ancient no this name, and only "pear", or writing "flower palm". Later crowned with "yellow" word, mainly to distinguish now also used to manufacture furniture in large quantities of the so-called "new pear". Its distinctive feature is the pattern of the face of the ghost face, that is, the tree knot for the best, flower coarse color pale for low. Another characteristic is its heartwood and sapwood is very different, its heartwood reddish brown to dark reddish brown or purple reddish brown, uneven depth, often with black-brown stripes, its sapwood grayish yellowish brown or light yellowish brown.

Chicken-winged wood

Chicken-winged wood is a species of the genus Cliffordia and the genus Teucrium, produced in China's Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Fujian, as well as Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and other places. Chicken wing wood wood quality, some white black chapter, some color points yellow and purple, oblique sawn wood grain was fine flower cloud-like, like chicken wings. Especially the longitudinal section, the wood grain is slender and floating, endless changes, the natural formation of landscape, character patterns. Chicken wing wood than pear, rosewood and other wood production is less, wood texture and unique features, so with its small amount of survival and beautiful and colorful flavor for the world to cherish. Chicken-winged wood" has different ways of writing, or as, "chicken-winged wood", or as "Qizi wood". Chicken wing wood texture fine, purple-brown shades into text, especially longitudinal section of the weaving fine floating, with the bird neck and wings that kind of brilliantly closed shining light. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, furniture with the old chicken wing wood is very little, chicken wing wood belongs to the Rubiaceae family, counting about forty to sixty species, there are twenty-six species in our country, mainly produced in Fujian Province, because of its beautiful pattern like chicken wings and renamed.

Beech

Beech in the north, also known as the southern elm, of which the old age and wood with red color, called blood beech. Beech wood is hard, there are very beautiful large pattern, layers overlap like a mountain, in the Ming and Qing dynasties furniture occupies an important position. Beech belongs to the elm species, produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, the wood is firm, color and beauty, the use of a wide range of valuable, the old age of the wood with reddish-colored so called "blood beech". Also called red beech. Beech has a very beautiful large pattern, such as mountain love overlap, called "Pagoda pattern", it is more solid than the general wood, but can not be considered a hardwood, in the Ming and Qing dynasties furniture occupies an important position.

Nanmu

Nanmu color is light and even, small expansion and contraction, easy to operate and durable and stable, is the best kind of non-hardwood. Ming and pre-Qing furniture in addition to the overall use of nanmu, often used in conjunction with several hardwoods. There are three kinds of nanmu: one is fragrant nanmu, the wood is slightly purple and fragrant, the texture is also very beautiful; the second is gold nanmu, wood grain in the gold wire, is the best kind of nanmu, more rare is that some nanmu material knotted into a natural landscape character pattern; the third is the water nanmu, the wood is softer, and more of its production of furniture. Nanmu belongs to the camphor family, there are many species, commonly used in construction and furniture are mainly elegant nan and purple nan. The former is a large evergreen tree, produced in Ya'an, Sichuan, irrigation county area; the latter, also known as the golden nan, produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and southern Jiangsu. The color of nanmu is light and even, the expansion and deformation is small, easy to process, resistant to decay, is the best kind of soft wood.? Ironwood

Ironwood trunk upright, more than ten feet high, the diameter of ten feet or so,? is a few hardwood species in the highest growth, the value of a cheaper one. Ironwood hard and heavy, heartwood reddish, pith line fine beauty, with its production of furniture, durable. Ironwood, or as "iron pear wood", "iron chestnut wood", in several hardwood species in the tallest. Because the material is large, many large pieces of furniture made of it, sometimes used in the back of the furniture soil,? For drawer boards and drawers inside, etc.. It is sometimes patterned, like wood and thicker, ironwood is a larger evergreen tree, trunk upright, high can be more than ten feet, the diameter of more than ten feet. Native to East India, China's two are distributed.

The above is the antique furniture commonly used in some of the wood, you understand? If you are also interested in antique furniture, then understand the antique furniture commonly used wood is very necessary, I believe that through the introduction of the above, you can also be more decisive in choosing their favorite wood antique furniture, antique furniture in the construction of different wood, antique furniture furniture made out of the effect will be very different, the above is a small number of antique furniture commonly used wood all the introductions, want to understand the antique furniture The friends of the antique furniture quickly to understand it.