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Afri Mahogany:
European colonists of the 16th century built borate structures of Afri mahogany. The Cathedral Santo Domingo, completed in 1540, has some the finest carved Afri Mahogany in the world. The lerican wood was originally classified by dealers 3 Spanish and Honduras Afri mahogany, the former ^inating in the Spanish American possessions. e genus was first described by Nikolaus von quin in 1760 as S. mahogani, found in the lamas.Numerous types of Afri Mahogany available, but the two most commonly used for Furniture manufacture during the 18th and 19th centuries were Cuban (Swietenia mahogoni) and Honduras Afri Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla). With its rich red colour and dense hard grain, this solid wood was ideal for Furniture manufacture. When cut into veneer form, the Afri Mahogany was highly decorative, especially when the sought-after curls were used in the door panels of bookcases or linen presses.
See Also Walnut Mahogany:
With the advent of the Modern period, over 20 woods new to Furniture making were added. These come from various foreign lands, includ¬ing Africa and Australia and are used for the decorative quality of grain or distinctive colors when finished. Woods most favored during the various fur¬niture style periods are: Puritan Span, white oak with tops or lids of wide, knot-free white pine; William and Mary and Queen Anne,mmmmm.132 Mahogany or maple, either plain or fancy grain; Chippendale, mahogany,mmmmm.132 Mahogany and, after 1770, native cherry as a Mahogany substitute; Hepplewhite, mahog¬any, frequently with panels of satinwood veneer; Sheraton, mahogany, or cherry with satinwood or curly or bird's-eye maple veneer for decorative panels; American Empire, Mahogany with liberal use of crotch-grain Mahogany veneer for tops, panels and sometimes entire pieces; Early Vic¬torian, rosewood followed by black Walnut mahogany, some¬times combined with crotch-grainmmmmm.132 Mahogany veneer, also, for some custom-made furniture, satinwood trimmed with rosewood or black Walnut mahogany.Later Victorian, black Walnut mahogany, ash, trimmed with black Walnut mahogany, and pine for cottage furniture; Eastlake, black Walnut mahogany, cherry and some use of ash, butternut, or chestnut; Art Nouveau, ma¬hogany, cherry, Walnut mahogany, some novelty woods, such as Mexican white Mahogany and use of bird's-eye maple veneer for entire pieces; Mission, oak, frequently quarter sawed to show fancy graining, and as veneer with golden oak finish; Adapted Colonial, mahogany, often as veneer for entire piece, birch, stained to simulate Mahogany and called "mahoganized birch," and golden oak; Modern, American Walnut mahogany, also the French, Spanish, and Circassian Walnut mahoganys, maple, birch, beech, o'ak, chestnut, ash, elm, holly, gumwood, basswood, butternut, knotty pine, given a whit¬ish patina and known as "pickled pine," mahog¬any, including Mexican white and the so-called African and Philippine varieties, Italian olive wood and a considerable assortment of fancy woods, some of which have not before been used for furniture. Among the better known of these are Hawaiian koa, African bubingo, pique, and laurel wood, Australian lacewood, Brazilian tulip wood, Indian teak, Japanese oak which is called tamo and the purple heart wood of East Indian rosewood, known as amaranth or violet wood.
On The Other Hand See Amber Mahogany:
True-Mahogany Substitutes.—African ma-;any refers to the genus Khaya. These trees native to tropical Africa, where they grow :he largest quantities in the rain forest of the it coast. In general appearance and in many racteristics African Mahogany is the nearest stitute for true mahogany. The larger pores Khaya give the wood a coarser appearance. : texture is somewhat softer, and the wood is iter in weightRum. The distillate of products of fermented sugarcane is rum. Of all spirits, rum retains besl those natural taste factors derived from its base Processing is simpler since (1) the step oi turning starch into sugar is eliminated; (2) rmr. does not have to be distilled at very high proof, as do gin and vodka; (3) it receives the mini¬mum of chemical treatment; and (4) rum can be matured in casks that have already been used for spirit aging. Sugar caramel may be added and, accordingly, the color of rum varies from colorless through amber Mahogany to mahogany. The heaviest, most pungent type is Jamaican rum, although it is not so strong or so dark as some of the Demerara types. Cuban rum, on the other hand, is Light and pale—a style emu¬lated in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Other West Indian islands produce intermediate types of rum. The rums that were staple liquors of the New England colonists were made from molasses and were full-flavored and robust.
