Wood is very flexible and bends easily. Valued carpentry
material. It is used to make furniture, parquet, paper and cellulose.
It is very popular among people with fireplaces. It is also widely
used as a plywood raw material, for the production of chipboards and
fibreboards, and for the production of sports and household equipment.
Also suitable for turning and woodcarving.
Particularly
valuable and sought-after parts from the buttstock, characterized by a
wonderful drawing. They make very valuable burl furniture. This happens
when the birch is attacked by flies. It then produces thickenings, thus
creating valuable burl wood.
It secretes bactericidal
substances - phytoncides. Thanks to them, the zone around the trees is
free of bacteria.
There are two native oak species in Poland: sessile and
pedunculate oak. The sessile oak grows in poorer and drier habitats than
its relative, and is also more thermophilic. It flowers about two weeks
later than the English oak. It is estimated that the oldest Bolesław oak
in the Kołobrzeg Forest is over 800 years old.
The wood of the
pedunculate oak (oak) is one of the most sought after. They are valued
for their hardness and durability, which they owe to a large amount of
tannins. They protect the wood from rot.
Dębina is used in
construction, carpentry, furniture, for the production of veneers,
parquets as well as in winemaking - for the construction of barrels.
Wine aged in such barrels acquires the desired and appreciated vanilla
aroma.
The pedunculate oak, which has been submerged in water or
swamp for several hundred years, is called black oak or Polish ebony. As
a result of various reactions, it blackens, gaining an unusual
appearance and high value, while maintaining its mechanical properties
(strength). That is why high-class furniture is made of oak and black
oak.
It has valuable and hard, yet flexible wood.
It is often used
to make furniture and furniture veneers.
Because wood is resistant
to abrasion, it was used to make axles for wagons and staves for floors.
Ash has played a significant role in mythology since ancient
times. The Druids attributed special power and authority over water to
him; they used ash wood to summon rain or to tame the destructive power
of water. In the mythology of the countries of the North, ash was
considered a tree of life, which, like a living column, penetrates and
connects various worlds of the dead, people and gods.
Maple wood is light and hard to deform. It is hard, heavy and
resilient, which is why musical instruments (e.g. mechanisms of pianos
and grand pianos) and billiard cues are willingly made of it.
It is
also used to make furniture, cut veneers, parquet floors, kitchen
equipment and toys. It is also valued in woodcarving. Also good for
firewood.
It is to the maple that we owe two popular sayings:
“to the grave” and “knock on the unpainted”.
Once it was believed
that a maple board had the power to drive away the devil, so the dead
were placed on it. It was also believed that to increase the strength of
maple wood, you should knock on it - but only on unpainted ones.
Walnut wood is valued as a material for the production of
furniture and wooden elements of weapons.
A species of deciduous
tree from the nut family. In the wild, it is found in the Balkans,
Southeastern Europe, Southwestern, Central and Eastern Asia, the
Himalayas, northern Myanmar and southwestern China. In Poland, it is
commonly cultivated and often wild.
Linseed oil is a slow-drying oil, thanks to which it penetrates
deeply into the wood. Thus, its application time lasts a long time. In
the process of polymerization with the participation of oxygen,
i.e. drying (it actually hardens, there is no evaporation process due to
trace amounts of water), it may turn yellow, which is why it is suitable
for dark wood such as oak or walnut. Light wood, i.e. birch, ash, maple,
should be protected with oils without this property, which is also the
solution we use in our furniture.
The oldest linen fibers date back
30,000 years, and linseed oil was used in the 14th century to protect
the canvas of paintings.
Yellow-brown in color, fast-drying thick oil. Known for over 2,500 years, wood oil from the seeds of the tung tree (lat. Aleurites fordii, Ford’s tung) from China. The earliest records date back to Confucius 500 BC. The Song Dynasty (10th-13th centuries) used tung oil to waterproof ships. In the thirteenth century, Marco Polo wrote about tung oil used to build ships, the so-called “junks”. Coatings covered with it are resistant to water, acids, alkalis and some organic solvents. Used to protect metals against corrosion and to produce waterproof textiles and paper. Free from volatile organic compounds (VOC).