What are the raw materials of furniture?

Solid wood: Its materials are mainly divided into hardwood and cork. Hardwood is more suitable for through carving, while cork furniture is affordable.

I. Hardwood

It can also be called "Sequoia". From the beginning, it was not the furniture of a specific tree species, but the collective name of rare hardwood high-quality furniture since Ming and Qing Dynasties. Because of the stability of wood, the furniture has a long circulation time. Common hardwoods are rosewood, Huang Huali, wingwood and rosewood.

Red sandalwood: the most precious wood, with solid texture but slow growth, so most furniture is made of several tenons. If there is a whole board, it is quite precious and rare. Its color is mostly purple and black, which exudes a quiet and noble temperament.

Mainly produced in subtropical areas, such as India and other Southeast Asian regions. China's Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi all have a small amount of production. Wood is shiny and fragrant, and turns purple-red and brown after being exposed to the air for a long time. It is interwoven with arts and sciences, with dense structure, corrosion resistance, strong durability and hard, heavy and delicate materials.

Huanghuali: a rare and unique tree species in China. Wood is shiny and spicy; Arts and sciences are interlaced, with thin and uniform structure and corrosion resistance. Strong durability, hard and heavy material and high strength.

Rosewood: Pterocarya stenoptera, a precious tree species with high quality and dark heartwood. It is distributed in tropical regions of the world, mainly in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa. Hainan, Yunnan, Guangdong and other places have introduced and cultivated. Among rosewood produced in Southeast Asia, Thailand is the best, followed by Myanmar. The sapwood of rosewood heartwood is obviously different, and the sapwood is yellow-white to grayish brown; Heartwood is reddish brown, purple to purplish brown; The wood is uniform in color and has dark stripes, but the annual rings are not obvious or slightly obvious. Loose or semi-annular porous materials, single-tube holes, a few radial multi-tube holes, containing dark gum, deposits or fillers. The axial parenchyma is wing-like, wing-like, band-like, annular tube bundle-like and rim-like. Wood rays are extremely fine, mainly in a single row, and the radial markings are not obvious or slightly obvious, and the chord surface is wavy. Wood has luster, slight or obvious fragrance, staggered texture, fine and uniform structure, slightly coarse in some South America and Africa, strong corrosion resistance and durability. The material is hard and heavy, some are medium, some are medium, and some are high in strength. Generally, it floats in water, and the water of wood powder or sawdust fluoresces. Most of them appear on Ming-style furniture, with dense wood and colors ranging from light yellow to dark brown. Generally, the longer Huang Huali furniture is used, the brighter its color is, which is more suitable for modern space.