Timber Monographs - Edmonda PALUTAN

Timber Monograph - E. PALUTAN

3 Volumes with 40 samples of real wood veneer in each Volume.

40 Samples - Botanical, Commercial, and local names. Properties, uses, and sources of supply of some useful timbers of the world.

Introduction

The availability of wood, its reasonable cost compared with other constructional and structural materials, its exceptionally high strength its prestige in a wide field of use for many generations.

In the past, the characteristic variations of wood were not as important as they are today because timber was cheaper and was easily available, and the popular choice was generally restricted to a few species with a local reputation for performing well in the major uses of house building, furniture, and joinery, and for boat and ship building.

In Europe, oak (Quercus ss.) was s traditional wood for building ships for several centuries, although the most progressive changes in wood use probably revolved around furniture development. The Tudor Gothic and Jacobean periods for example from about 1500 to about 1660 saw oak as the principle furniture wood.

From until about 1714, there was a traditional period when a few other species were tried but from this date until 1750 e.e. the early Georgian period, walnut (Juglans regia) largely replaced oak in furniture. Between the years 1745 to 1800 mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni) and Jamaica satinwood (Fagara flava syn Zanthoxylum flavum), became the principal woods used by Chippendale, Adam, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton in their various designs.

The Industrial Revolution which changed countries like England from an agricultural to a manufacturing country during the latter half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th resulted in more and more demands for raw materials and particularly timber, to support industry.

Progressively, from which changes counties during the latter .........

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