How to tell if the furniture is old elm

The old elm wood is tough, the texture is clear and clear, the hardness and strength are moderate, the general openwork relief can be adapted, the planing surface is smooth, the chord pattern is beautiful, and there is the pattern of "wenge", which is one of the main furniture materials. The characteristics of its wood are clearly distinguished by the heartwood sapwood, which is narrow and dark yellow, and the heartwood is dark purple-gray; The material is light and hard, the mechanical strength is high, the texture is straight, and the structure is coarse. It can be used for furniture, decoration, etc., and elm wood can be dried, shaped, carved and polished with lacquer, and can be made into exquisite carved lacquer handicrafts.

Furniture markets in the north can be found everywhere.

Elm and the beech wood produced in the south are known as "North Elm and South Beech". And the material width is wide, and the texture is excellent; The deformation rate is small, and the carving decoration is mainly rough. It's a great man in the wood, a big husband.

Elm is divided into yellow elm and purple elm. Yellow elm is more common, and the wood is pale yellow when newly opened, and the color gradually deepens with age; The purple elm is naturally black and purple, and the color is similar to the color of old mahogany. Therefore, the northern furniture is made of elm wood, which is made of wax and lacquer.

Old elm and other materials symbiosis, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other ancient furniture provinces can see the traces of elm furniture at any time. The production of elm furniture spans a large time, from the early Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, and its evolution process and regional characteristics are very clear. The early elm furniture was mainly dedicated to the furniture, such as the offering table and the offering table, which was ancient and clumsy, and was mostly displayed in temples and ancestral halls, so it can be preserved to this day.

There is a wooden basin carved from elm, no lacquer and no decoration, after a long time of touching and air oxidation, the slurry is bright and dazzling, and the wood grain is old and strong. A century-old relic, intact, caressing the heart like a crisp. It seems to caress the face of the vicissitudes of time.