The furniture as a common artifact at home, not just our usual necessities and furnishings, to meet people’s living, but also has a rich cultural heritage, so some of the old furniture collection value is quite high. However, the four sequences of change, temperature, environmental changes may have an impact on the preservation of old furniture, cracking, mold, damage and other situations, if not properly maintained, not only affects the integrity of the old furniture, will also lead to damage to its collection value. The following and career knowledge to take a look at it.
For this reason, collectors are conscientious in the process of collecting old furniture, will be through a variety of ways to adjust the old furniture. For example, when the furniture attached to the dust, can not be held with a wet cloth wipe. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. The old furniture usually needs to be wiped with a soft brush to gently brush away the dust. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are getting into. The national art judgment appraiser Yang Bo said, encounter this situation, can be outside the furniture wax conditioning. The actual fact is that many antique practitioners will choose walnut oil to brush the furniture, some collectors will also use peanut oil, palm oil and so on.
The actual, in the course of the collection of old furniture with smear walnut oil conditioning way is not taken. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time. It looks dirty old, it is really one of the old ways to make new antique furniture, for the old furniture conditioning without any benefit. Not only can not play a role in the old furniture conditioning, but will be the old furniture cohesion of color, fragrance, taste all to damage.
The first thing you should do is to remove the stains from the outside of the furniture, and then repair any cracks or abrasions. The last to the outside of the furniture held wax polishing disposal, so that a hundred years of furniture can be old look for a new face. In addition, in the storage process to pay attention to the temperature and humidity ratio, if it is too dry old furniture will crack again. For example, the Ming and Qing furniture suitable environmental conditions is the temperature between 15 ℃ to 25 ℃, relative humidity in 55% to 75%, in this condition, the expansion and contraction of the wood is low, the durability of the outside paint is high, the furniture should not be deformed. Do not put the furniture in a more humid place, so as not to expand the wood due to humidity, over time it is easy to mold, rot, deformation. In the course of collecting old furniture, it is best not to place items outside, so as not to cause furniture deformation.
What are the ways of conditioning old furniture
1, the old furniture is not afraid of dry crack, afraid of damage.
Rosewood wood mostly produced in the tropics, the material moisture content is high, plus made of old furniture, material hard, density, to completely eliminate the internal forces of the plate takes a longer time. Therefore, in the dry weather, furniture often dry shrinkage cracking, which is a normal sign, no need to make a fuss, to gradually adapt and accept.
As long as the cracking of furniture does not affect the elegance, as usual, no repair. As time goes by, the wood will naturally transform, these cracks will gradually eliminate. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of these. On the contrary, if too much emphasis is placed on the material of furniture dry enough, winter is not shortened, but the wet summer to temporarily, but will be flooded with serious deformation or even fracture. The characteristics of old furniture dry collection of wet up so that furniture will not only flood dry crack, but also in the change of season creaking sound, these are exceptionally normal things.
Old furniture as long as not maliciously damaged, with hundreds of years will not rot, rare is its mortise and tenon structure is difficult to completely collapse, even if bad, once repaired and intact as before, but the outside of the furniture panel such as desktop, chair surface, as usual, is brittle, easy to bruise bruise crack, affecting the elegance, so in the overall move, pay attention to lift the ground, to prevent dragging impact.
2, there are carved old furniture also do not need to deliberately take care of.
The old furniture with carvings, due to the beauty of the engraving process, appreciation greatly enhanced, but many consumers fear the usual sweeping difficult, this melancholy is also superfluous. In the outside finishing, just use the long-haired brush to brush on the line, if there is dust in the cracks, finishing less than no big deal, dust in the role of time to form the pulp, is the pursuit of a number of collectors of high realm, old furniture must be the more you use the more temperate, this career atmosphere brought about by the humanistic atmosphere, but also greatly added to the charm of old furniture.
3, hot wax process of the old furniture does not need frequent rubbing wax.
It is well known that the hot wax process disposed of the outside of the old furniture, furniture not only reflects the beautiful pattern of the wood itself, but also appears glossy bright sense. When the furniture is worn or even scratched, the best disposal facility is also to wax the old. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. This is because an old furniture factory, has been through countless times craft workers frequently polished wax finish, too often in the usual maintenance wax, but will damage the wood, and touch up the feel will be too smooth, less the normal state of the sense of warmth.
Old furniture conditioning way tips.
1, dry humidity
Old furniture to prevent sunlight durable exposure, that is easy to make the wood internal moisture loss of balance, resulting in cracks. Old furniture should not be placed in too wet place, will make the furniture long insects, erosion rate accelerated, in the wet season, to focus on hiding through the wind; old furniture placed in the ground to maintain superior humidity, in order to prevent structural transformation is furniture warping. If the durable use of air conditioning cooling, you can put a basin of water next to it.
2、Temperature
The outside of the old furniture do not put hot instruments directly on it, will damage the outside of the precious paint and wax. Old furniture should not be too close to the fire, so that the old furniture inside and outside the dry humidity differences, affecting the shape of the furniture structure, another is to have to prevent fire. Old furniture should also not be placed directly under the air conditioner to prevent the air conditioner from opening and closing, resulting in a violent temperature shift, thus making the furniture unevenly heated and warped.
3, overall
Old furniture with to prevent long moths, moths will put the wood cavity, shorten the service life of furniture, usually use to be held regularly to prevent insects, put some camphor pills and other put long moth items. If the protective measures are not done, long insects, once found must be used in real time to get rid of drugs. The old furniture outside stained with oil and other instruments with light soapy water to wash clean in the wax.
The old furniture in the usual washing, choose soft cotton cloth or soft brush wipe, stop using too hard material, will old furniture outside wipe flowers. Every few have on a wax, but the wax should not be too elite, too much wax will make the pores of the wood clogged. The old furniture should also pay attention to hard instruments and it collision or scratch on it, will make the outside of the old furniture bump.
4、Conformity to wood nature
The people’s test to conform to human nature, furniture conditioning should also conform to the wood, that is, the furniture “temperament”:.
The winter of the northern families are born heating, people are close to the heating is very quiet, but furniture has to be far away from the heating, so as not to cause too much shortening of the wood due to high temperatures, resulting in cracking.
Hot days are coming, it often rains, furniture should be prevented from window placement, so as not to get wet in the rainy weather, up bad outside, damage mortise and tenon.
Many furniture is also afraid of the wind, especially with the surface of the furniture such as tables, cabinets and other furniture, subject to the “dry shrinkage and wet expansion” of the impact of the wind blowing for a long time easy to crack, warp.
The furniture is not like a marching bed, you can make a strong toss. In order to move the furniture can not be violent, must be light, and not too diligent, or easy to fall apart.
The furniture can not be left in one place, as the saying goes, “water does not rot, the pivot is not moth-eaten”. With the change of seasons, furniture in the placement of the appropriate adjustments to be made. If you let it always stay in one place, it will be easy to decay. I often see such ancient furniture: the front and side of the beautiful, the side against the wall is disastrous, as if a beautiful beauty was burned half of the face, let people look at the heart full of infinite regret ……
