Results found with the tag 'Furniture' , 48 articles in total.
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Bamboo furniture in China
Amongst its myriad of uses, bamboo was commonly employed during the Ming and Qing dynasties to make chairs, stools, beds, bookcases, tables, matting and curtains.
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Huaimu furniture
Huaimu is Chinese Locust in China. Locust initially appears quite similar to northern elm. In the Northern Song architecture treatise Yingzao fashi, locust and elm (yu) were categorized "miscella
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Huangyang furniture
Boxwood is Huangyang Wood in China. Boxwood is a small tree and shrub. Due to the limited size of the material, it is rarely used for full-sized pieces of furniture,
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Burl (Huamu) furniture
Burl is Yingmu, Huamu wood in China. Burls are abnormal projections that bulge out from or encircle the trunks or branches of trees. What causes them remains unknown and their tumor-like growth d
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Baimu furniture
Cypress is Baimu, Bomu wood in China. Cypress is categorized along with nanmu in the Song dynasty Yingzao fashi categorizes as a "miscellaneous soft wood" (za ruanmu).
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Xiangzhang furniture
Because of its resistance to insects as well as its attractive grain patterns, camphor wood has long been used for making wardrobes and storage chests. Camphor is a large evergreen tree of the la
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Jumu furniture
Jumu wood in China is Southern Elm, Zelkova. Southern Elm was a popular furniture-making wood in the Suzhou region. It is distinguished from its northern counterpart by a more refined ring porous
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Chinese Furniture:Hongmu
Most of the dark heavily carved Qing period furniture is made from hongmu. Also called 'blackwood', it can resemble zitan but lacks the latters deep lustrous surface and its 'crab-claw markings'.
