What are the characteristics of lobular red sandalwood?

Brief introduction of lobular red sandalwood

Sandalwood red sandalwood is mostly produced in tropical and subtropical primeval forests, and Indian red sandalwood is the best. As the saying goes, ten sandalwood nine empty, the largest red sandalwood diameter is only about 20 centimeters, its precious degree can be imagined.

The texture of red sandalwood is hard, the color is from dark black to red, varied and fine-grained. There are many kinds of red sandalwood, red sandalwood growth rate is slow, 5 years only one year round, to more than 800 years to become wood, hardness for the first wood, known as "imperial wood", can not be compared with ordinary wood.

After polishing, the wood is very oily, moist like rhinoceros horn, and has fine, beautiful and vivid cow hair lines, its color is dark purple or black purple, deep and stable, it is a very excellent material for making furniture.

In the early Qing Dynasty, red sandalwood furniture was almost monopolized by the court, and the Ministry of Household specially set up procurement points in South and Southeast Asia to purchase red sandalwood for the court. After the reform and opening up, people's income has increased, their living standards have improved, and their liking for classical traditional furniture has gradually become a fashion.

Red sandalwood furniture has become the darling of middle-class use and collection. The growing market demand, coupled with the fact that rosewood is about to be included in the list of environmental protection, a ban on logging will enter the ranks of ivory and rhino horn protection.

The countries concerned also strictly control exports. As a result, the price of rosewood has risen rapidly, more than ten times higher than it was five years ago, and the current market price has exceeded one million yuan per ton.