Wood Encyclopedia - Sian rosewood

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Scientific name: Dalbergia chinensis, Dalbergia genus.

Alias: Siamese rosewood, Laohong red rosewood, old mahogany, flame wood, rosewood.

Distribution or main producing areas: Produced in Southeast Asia, including all parts of Cambodia, central and southern Laos, northeastern, eastern and central Thailand, south of Guangping Province, Vietnam.

Simple identification and identification: Sian rosewood is second only to sandalwood rosewood, superior to wenge and rosewood. The color of the heartwood varies greatly, orange, light reddish brown, reddish brown, purple red, purple brown to dark brown, uneven color, dark stripes, and sometimes black banded stripes, commonly known as "black ribs." Old material purple black color, glossy dark, dense texture. The cross section was observed with a magnifying glass, and it was found that there were wing-like and thin-line structures around the tube hole, and the width was smaller than the tube hole diameter.

Confusing tree species: Dalbergia and other red rosewood species are more difficult to distinguish, especially in the case of furniture, often difficult for experts to identify. 1. Barry Dalbergia: Also known as flowering branches, the growth wheel is obvious, the cross-section has a relatively obvious network structure, and the chestnut-cut surface has a rich and beautiful pattern of chestnut-brown fine stripes. 2. Aussie Dalbergia: also known as white branches, often with obvious black stripes, much like the "black ribs" of Sian rosewood, the cut surface of the string has "chicken wings", the new cut surface is lemon red. 3. Dipple Dalbergia: There are also black stripes, the overall color is yellow, the new cut surface is orange reddish brown, with a strong sour taste, the wood is not as hard as Dalbergia.

Cultural origin: "Redwood", one of the earliest appeared in China in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, red sandalwood ( sandalwood rosewood) and huanghuali (decocted rosewood) is increasingly difficult to find, began to import wood from Nanyang (Southeast Asia) to replace. At that time, it was known as "purple". Because of its sour aroma, Guangdong called it "sour branch". Because the color is mostly jujube red, the north of the Yangtze River is often called "redwood" or "old mahogany", mainly refers to the cross. Dalbergia and Bari Dalbergia. Lee, Wang Xiaofang in the "Southeast Asia produce three kinds of red rosewood Dynasty" in that South Vietnam local history "Annals of Jiading" in the record "mahogany, leaves such as dates, gray; produced very much; the most appropriate Jian cabinet casket purposes ; merchant ships often loaded to return "refers to the Cochin rosewood mahogany. Jiang Fan Qing Dynasty "journey Wen Jian Lu": "Purple Yu ship from the sea, like rosewood, no crab claw pattern scoop of this smell like vinegar, it is one." There are still late Qing Dynasty wood, red Republic of China. "" Most of the old furniture of rosewood is concentrated in the coastal areas of Shanghai, Suzhou, Tianjin, Fujian and Guangdong. Mr. Liu Peng analysis of China and Southeast Asia trade frequently during the Ming Dynasty and Southeast Asian countries but also in the form of trade and tribute to mahogany shipped to China for the production of furniture in the "mahogany furniture and solid wood floor" in its "Modern China mahogany furniture "in that where there rosewood mahogany. In addition, the main materials of mahogany furniture during the Republic of China also included Sian rosewood (called "Thai Redwood").

(Contributed by the provincial woodcarving mahogany furniture product quality inspection center) Source from the provincial woodcarving mahogany furniture product quality inspection center)

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