This simply means that working with spalted maple requires patience, creativity, and a jettisoning of standard design notions. Bleached whites, darker yellows and sometimes grays and even pinks can all exist within one book/bundle of veneer. Patterns that you’ve picked out can change drastically throughout the bundle of veneer.Īnd if this wasn’t enough, the fungal intruders may also alter the color of the wood they are attacking. This means that matching plywood and veneer designs can be tricky or even impossible. The inky zone lines can change in unpredictable ways inside the wood. The variety of lines and coloration that are revealed as you open up a book of our veneers - a singular experience that teases the eye with their abstraction - draws you in like an impressionist painting. Working with our spalted maple veneers and plywoods means that you are letting the wildness of nature be your design partner. But there is a renewed appreciation for its delightful designs because the allure of spalted maple is its unpredictability - no two pieces will look exactly the same - and therein lies its essence and beauty. What makes spalted maple wood so special?ĭesigners, architects and woodworkers alike have always wrestled with spalted maple - there is nothing like it in terms of challenging design sensibility and skills. Mango wood with fine spalting was used to build this. The spalting process starts when one of these majestic trees dies and begins to decay - or when a living tree is otherwise stressed and weakened due to either natural causes, like a lightning strike, or through contact with humans through construction or road building. Macro of spalting in beech showing white rot and zone lines. Sugar maple trees can live more than 130 years and reach lofty heights of 80-115 feet, with a diameter up to 3 feet. While a wide range of wood species will spalt, sugar maple is most prized due to its often very pronounced designs and its lighter colored sapwood. This is not the kind of coloring left by a mold that grows on wood and is easily scrubbed away, but rather fungi that have made their way into the vascular system of the wood and left a pigmentation there. It refers specifically to coloring found in wood that is caused by the presence of one or many fungi. The word spalting has been celebrated in Europe for hundreds of years, and is German in origin. The partial decay itself is called spalting and leaves dark contrasting lines and streaks in the wood. Spalted wood is not a specific species of wood but is simply a term for any tree that has begun the initial stages of decay, and then it is dried out, halting its further decline. Spalted wood is not an invention, it is a discovery. Using our proprietary spalting technique, we have become the largest and foremost producer of commercial-grade spalted wood veneer and plywood in North America.
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