Furniture Makers Trees in the Gatehouse area

Furniture Makers trees at The Arboretum - Kew at Castle Howard

only by virtue of their small size and because only a few have been grown in commercial quantities. Many of them produce exceptionally beautiful wood that has been used to decorate some of the most exquisitely crafted furniture over the ages – as inlays and stringing, marquetry and veneers.

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British furniture makers have long used a wide variety of timbers in their work, both of native and imported exotic species. In the old entrance gate area, there are twenty one different types of shrubs and trees that yield what are thought of as “minor” furniture timbers, but they can be considered minor