Guide to choose the best for your furniture different types of wood for furniture both hardwood and softwood are available in the market.
Chinese furniture wood types.
These properties make them dimensionally stable hardwearing rot and insect resistant and when new highly fragrant.
Elmwood is a softer lumber than rosewood and native to northern china it is a medium density lumber that is denser than pine.
Native chinese woods are primarily elmwood beechwood pine and fir with some mahogany and walnut.
One is called chu wood and is similar in appearance to oak but is difficult to finish without dark streaking.
It is a member of the rosewood family and is botanically classified as dalbergia odorifera.
Ming furniture features durable and precious woods such as red sandalwood and scented rose wood which.
Simple structure and minimal decoration set off the natural beauty of the wood.
Many other native woods are tried some with success and others not so much.
These woods are denser than water fine grained and high in oils and resins.
In premodern times the wood was know as huali or hualu.
It is not as red as rosewood and stained in the brownish tones looking like teak walnut or pecan.
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This meaningful simplicity was achieved without sacrificing comfort.
Classic chinese furniture is typically made of a class of hardwoods known collectively as rosewood 紅木 literally red wood.
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.
Poorer provinces developed the lacquer technique to copy the dark color and style of the zitan or dark red sandlewood furniture.
Emit pleasant aromas naturally adding a touch of taste and grace.
The chinese term huanghuali literally means yellow flowering pear wood.