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How to Choosing And Maintaining Rosewood Furniture

The topic is focused on the rosewood furniture,which is one kind of solid wood furniture. the more information about selecting and maintain Chinese antique furniture ( antique Chinese furniture), please read the relative detailed article about "Tips of Buying Chinese Antique Furniture" and "Chinese Antique Furniture Collecting Guides".

Wood Quality
When choosing rosewood furniture, you should evaluate the wood quality of the furniture. For example, Padauk and Rosewood are clarified as high quality and rare timber. These kinds of wood have high and solid quality with nice grains. They are shiny and smoothly. They are not easy to be corroded and scratched. They are the major materials for high quality rosewood furniture.

However, some kinds of woods such as pine and banyan are soft. They are easy to be scratched and change shape. They will rot down by moth sooner or later. Therefore you should evaluate the wood by its color, grain, density and smell carefully.

Wood Grain
Those high quality woods such as padauk and rosewood have nice and clear grains with beautiful patterns. Their cutting surfaces are smooth and tight.
While the grains of the low quality wood such as pine's and banyan's are mess and irregular. Their cutting surfaces are rough and loose. When choosing rosewood furniture, you should not only check the wood of the bottom but also evaluate the nature and the grains of the wood, so that you can avoid misleading.

Handicraft
Rosewood furniture should appear the natural color of the wood with nice grains. The general model of the furniture should be harmonious and the craft of the furniture should be exquisite. You can appreciate the general artistic of rosewood furniture from the following three aspects:

a. Carpentry
The furniture should have regular appearance and firm structure. The tenon of connection should be connected tightly without flaw. The surface should be smooth and flat. The drawers and doors should work smoothly and freely.

b. Carving
The carving design should be nice with clear arrangement. The carving line should be even and exquisite. The contour should be symmetry with smooth surface.

c. Painting
The painting on the surface should be even and smooth without any spot. Do not choose those furniture with different thickness, rough and uneven painting. When touching the painting it should be smooth without rough. Notice the bottom and inner side of the furniture, they should be painted smoothly all over. Otherwise it may split easily.

Water Content of the Wood
All solid wood will expand and contract a little with temperature changes.

The water content of the wood is a key factor for choosing rosewood furniture. It is because that if the rosewood had not been treated by drying process or did not reach the required water content standard, the furniture made of which can not adapt the variation of the weather and will shrink, split or become loose easily. Moreover the painting will fall off and its color becomes fade and moldy. The national standard of the water content is 15%. In some dryer areas, it required lower than 15%.

Maintenance
1. Use an air conditioner to adjust the air moisture in winter and summer. Keep the indoor temperature at around twenty-five degrees centigrade and the air moisture at around 70%-80%.

2. Don't leave the furniture under the bright sunshine or close to a high temperature place.

3. The dust is easy to scratch the surface of furniture. When you clean the furniture, you should use soft cotton material.
If you use dry and hard cotton material to clean the furniture, it will scratch the painting surface.

4. In order to maintain the smooth surface, please use the wet and soft cotton material or furniture wax to clean the furniture (including Chinese antique furniture) frequently. This will keep the furniture surface shiny.

5. When moving the furniture, do not drag them. Please lift them up and move carefully, so that you can prevent the furniture structure from being loose.

From: Antique Chinese Furniture (MFG) Ltd.
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http://www.lubanfang.com
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