These woods are denser than water fine grained and high in oils and resins.
Chinese furniture wood types.
Many other native woods are tried some with success and others not so much.
Simple structure and minimal decoration set off the natural beauty of the wood.
Yes think rubber tree plantations.
The chinese term huanghuali literally means yellow flowering pear wood.
It is a member of the rosewood family and is botanically classified as dalbergia odorifera.
During the 80 s and 90 s the go to wood for a well grained look was rubberwood.
Each type comes with a different set of characteristics in terms of color density grain and finishing.
This meaningful simplicity was achieved without sacrificing comfort.
In premodern times the wood was know as huali or hualu.
One is called chu wood and is similar in appearance to oak but is difficult to finish without dark streaking.
These properties make them dimensionally stable hardwearing rot and insect resistant and when new highly fragrant.
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.
It is not as red as rosewood and stained in the brownish tones looking like teak walnut or pecan.
Ming furniture features durable and precious woods such as red sandalwood and scented rose wood which.
Guide to choose the best for your furniture different types of wood for furniture both hardwood and softwood are available in the market.
Classic chinese furniture is typically made of a class of hardwoods known collectively as rosewood 紅木 literally red wood.
Its hardness is useful in making of table tops and cabinets.
Poorer provinces developed the lacquer technique to copy the dark color and style of the zitan or dark red sandlewood furniture.