Record #:

27569

Author(s):

Welker, Dorothy

Abstract:

For some time scholars believed that the use of white pine in early furniture indicated northern manufacture, since white pine does not grow along the southern coast. However, many pieces of southern manufacture display white pine as a secondary wood. North Carolina merchants often used white pine because it was easier and cheaper to import lumber by water than to face the difficulties of cutting local trees.

Source:

Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts (NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 3 Issue 1, May 1977, p11-26, il, bibl, f

Subject(s):

Furniture industry and trade; Furniture, Early American