Which precious wood can be used as furniture

Historically, China's furniture using wood, as of today in the Ming and Qing dynasties are valuable wood. China's Ming and Qing dynasty furniture wood is divided into two categories of hardwood and white wood; furniture can also be divided into hardwood furniture and white wood furniture.

One, the Ming and Qing dynasties furniture selection of hardwood timber rosewood, rosewood, chicken wing wood, iron pear wood, sour wood, crushed hazelnut wood, ebony, rosewood, camphor wood, etc..

Second, the Ming and Qing dynasties furniture selection of white wood wood beech, elm, nanmu, walnut, poplar and so on.

Three, Ming and qing dynasty furniture with material characteristics, the general look is largely the same, but Ming to huanghuali, rosewood, chicken wing wood, ironwood, zelkova for more; Qing to rosewood for the most superior material, mahogany, chicken wing wood, ironwood, huanghuali is relatively less, zelkova, elm, quercus hazelnut, walnut wood, the most widely used folk.

Four, the characteristics of precious wood

1, Huanghuali. In the Ming and qing dynasty furniture in the first choice of material is the 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.

2, rosewood. China since ancient times that is considered rosewood is the most valuable wood. Due to too expensive, so rosewood artifacts 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 most solid, the weight of the heaviest, in addition to more purple-black, some black as paint, almost invisible texture. Not as gorgeous as huanghuali, but static 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, Guangdong and other places also have production.

3, chicken wing wood. Chicken wing wood is also known as "Qizi wood". Chicken wing wood texture fine, purple-brown shades into text, especially longitudinal section of the weaving fine floating, with the bird's neck and wings of the kind of brilliantly molten glittering 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, 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.

3, ironwood. Ironwood also known as "iron pear wood", "iron chestnut wood". Ironwood in several species of hardwood trees grow the highest large. Because the material is large, many large pieces of furniture made of it, sometimes used in the back of the furniture soil, as drawer boards and drawer interior. It is sometimes patterned, like wood and thicker, ironwood is a larger evergreen tree, trunk upright, can be more than ten feet high, diameter up to more than ten feet. Native to East India, China and Guangdong are distributed.

4, mahogany. Redwood 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. Redwood wood is hard and durable. Old mahogany close to rosewood, but the luster is darker, lighter in color, the texture is not compact, there is a fragrance. Redwood for the tropical region of the legume sandalwood wood, mainly produced in India, China's Guangdong, Yunnan and the Nanyang Islands also have a production, is a common valuable hardwood." Redwood" is the popular name of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the north, the Guangdong area commonly known as "sour wood".

5, beech. Beech belongs to the elm species, produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, the wood firm, color and beauty, very wide range of uses, quite valuable, its old age wood with reddish color 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 ordinary wood, but can not be considered a hardwood, in the Ming and Qing dynasties furniture occupies an important position.

5, elm. Elm, also known as "white elm", widespread species, produced in China's plains, straight grain, pattern, structure is slightly coarse, brown eye significant, softer texture, categorized as firewood or called softwood. Easy to process and carve. Elm to Zhangjiakou area and Shandong territory on both sides of the Yellow River for the best. Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin folk furniture is dominated by this wood.

6, 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 pretend not crack, resistant to decay, suitable for carving plates, is a hardwood outside the more valuable species.

7, nanmu. Nanmu belongs to the camphor family, there are many species, commonly used in construction and furniture is mainly Ya Nan and purple nan. The former is a large evergreen tree, produced in Sichuan Ya'an, irrigation county area; the latter, also known as 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