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RETURN	French furniture: STYLES	Decorations of furniture / Materials	Stamps of Cabinet-makers masters at the XVth century and their typical furniture

- In former times different woods had different roles. For carpentry, the woods used in France were oak, walnut, chestnut, pine, beech, lime, poplar, elm, pear-tree wood, etc. For cabinet making (marquetry, veneering, "frisage") -imported, more exotic woods were used such as rosewood, Brazilian rosewood, violet wood, mahogany from Brazil and Central America, ebony from Macassar and Madagascar, birchwood from Canada and smooth woods (cedar, boxwood, thuja...). Distinctions can be made between wood cut along the grain, wood cut perpendicular to the grain and wood cut at an angle whose vein gives concentric ellipses or "butterfly wings". A network of veins crossing the grain gives a piece of wood a mesh effect.

- Inside the home wood has often been used for panelling, known as wainscoting, and is generally sculpted or moulded. It has the main elements of the style of the period to which it belongs and was often set off by matching furniture. Depending on the style, some pieces were painted and touched up in gold.

- The different woods :

American mahogany	Rosewood 1
Rosewood 2	Birch
Chestnut	Oak
Ebony	Spruce
Speckled maple	Ash
Beech	Larch
Wild cherry	Walnut
Okoumé	Elm
Brazilian rosewood	Poplar
Pine	Pitch pine
Pear	Sapele
Fir	Sequoia
Sycamore	Teak
Thuja	Lime

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