Satinwood

Satinwood, a handsome light-coloured hard wood with satin~like lustre, generally with a curled mottling of the grain. It is used in veneering and inlaying, and especially for the backs of hairbrushes. In the last century it was frequently employed in furniture ornamented with paintings. That from the East Indies is the product of Chloroxylon Srvietenia an ebenaceous tree, and is imported in round logs: the better quality, from Nassau in the Bahamas, in square logs, is the product of another tree of the same order, probably Maba guianensis.