BOTRA

Botanical name: Quercus
Origin: Europe

The best logs come from Germany (Spessart and Palatine) as well from France (Tronçais, Jupille)

Fine grain and light colour are the most popular for fine woodworking.

Thickness available 6/10mm, 9/10mm, 15/10mm and 20/10mm

Botanical name: Quercus sessiliflora
Origin: France, UK

It should be quarter or rift cut in order to get flaky figure.

Botanical name: Quercus sessiliflora
Origin: Europe

It comes from the trees that have been buried in peat bogs and preserved from decay by the acidic and anaerobic bog conditions, sometimes for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The wood is usually stained brown by tannins dissolved in the acidic water. Its colour may vary from tabacco to dark black colour depending on the fossilization period.

Botanical name: Diospyros Celebica
Origin: Celebes Islands of Indonesia, Sulawesi

It is very hard and heavy wood. Dark brown with black stripes to mostly black with slightly lighter brown or even salmon colour stripes.

This is the typical macassar look used in Art deco.

Botanical name: Diospyros Celebica
Origin: Celebes Islands of Indonesia, Sulawesi

Coromandel ebony wood is variegated, streaky brown and black, nearly always wide striped.

It is considered a highly valuable wood for turnery, fine cabinet work and joinery.

Botanical name: Cordia Dodecandra
Origin: Central America

The heartwood is dull brown with irregular dark brown and black streaking, and the sapwood is creamy white to light golden tan.

Long used by natives for decorative craft objects, ziricote is also used for boat decking, turnings, interior joinery, furniture, cabinets.

Botanical name: Machaerium scleroxylon
Origin: Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay

Red brown to deep purple brown, fine textured and beautifully marked, showing much of the character.

This wood is used a lot for cabinetry and architectural woodworking.

Botanical name: Dalbergia Latifolia
Origin: South India, Burma, Indonesia

Heartwood varies in colour from golden brown to dark purple brown, sometimes with a whole variety of greys, reds and browns. Darker purple streaks give an attractive figure; Grain can vary from fine to medium.

It was used a lot during Art deco period as well in 1950-1960’s. Nowadays is often used for fine wall panelling and cabinets.

Botanical name: Platanus
Origin: Europe, Middle East

It has orangey brown to light reddish colour. It gives an interesting pattern and decorative figure especially when a true quarter cut is used, the wood rays are sliced into elliptical shapes which create undulating light and shadowy reflections typical of "lacewood".

Botanical name: Cedrus Libani
Origin: North Africa, Middle East

It is an evergreen coniferous tree with pale to golden yellow color. It is mainly quarter cut and used for fine wall panelling and other interior decoration.

Botanical name: Juglans regia
Origin: Central, Western and Southern Europe, North Africa, Asia

Heartwood brown with a greyish-brown background, often with irregular dark streaks and wavy grain. Also available as highly-figured veneer. A superb cabinet wood that works easily.

It is used a lot in lumber and veneer for XVI and XVII century cabinets reproduction.

Botanical name: Juglans Nigra
Origin: North America

Its colour is darker than European walnut and its grain is much more open.

Botanical name: Acer Pseudoplatanus
Origin: Central and Western Europe

Colour – white to light yellow. It is widely used for architectural wood work and furniture.

It was very popular during Art deco period.

Botanical name: Taxus Baccata
Origin: France, UK

Small coniferous trees, they are relatively slow growing and can be very long-lived.

Yew's heartwood ranges in colour from an orange brown to a golden orange often streaked with purple, mauve and brown.

It would be plain or pippy and has tight grain.

Botanical name: Microberlina brazzavillenses
Origin: Cameroon, Gabon

The grain pattern looks very much like zebra stripes although the darker stripes are much thinner than the lighter stripes.

The dark stripes range from dark brown to almost black and the lighter portion ranges from light tan to golden yellow. The wood is almost always quarter sawn to show the striping.

Botanical name: Milletia laurentii
Origin: Cameroon, Congo

Wenge is a very striking dark and large-pored wood with a prominent two-tone appearance. It is particularly attractive looking when it is flat cut.

Botanical name: Cordia Cebestena
Origin: Guyana, Equator, Brazil

The look of the wood is determined by its uniform medium brown to purple brown colors which are streaked by dark brown to almost black stripes on the radial surfaces and marked by pretty figures on the tangential surface.

Dyed in brown reddish it looks like Rio rosewood.

Botanical name: Diplotropis Purpurre
Origin: South America

Freshly cut heartwood is generally chocolate brown, sometimes reddish, turning to a lighter brown when dry, occasionally greyish brown, with fine lighter parenchyma stripes. Sometimes has a kind of waxy look. Sapwood is white to yellow and well demarcated.

It was very popular during Art-deco period.

Botanical name: pseudo acacia
Origin: Europe, North America, North Africa

It is greyish when freshly cut but turning to nice golden brown when ageing.