Furniture Fact #18: Crotch Walnut
Here at Furnish Green, we come by many beautiful pieces of furniture crafted from a wide variety of wood species. Many factors make a piece special (aside from the fact that it has already stood the test of time), including design style or time period of origin, but the wood grain detail is often a distinctive feature. Therefore, I would like to introduce you to crotch walnut wood grain!
Crotch walnut comes about at the point where a branch intersects with a tree’s trunk and/or when there is a double trunk. In this region there is limited space for the tree to grow. With each year of growth, another annual ring of thickness is added; as wood pushes against wood, the grain starts to buckle in different directions. Wood fibers weave together to strengthen the limbs or branches, forming the crotch and feather appearance.This beautiful distortion rewards us with a grain that shimmers in the light and looks like waves of liquid.
A wonderful Furnish Green example can be seen in our recently sold 1930s Crotch Walnut Chifferobe (featured in the image above). This piece displays fine carved wood detail accompanying mother nature’s art of the crotch walnut wood grain along the doors.
Check out another example of some FG crotch walnut in coffee table form here!
To read more about the process of the crotch walnut check out these articles: