I’ve been interested in collecting woods for a long time. The International Wood Collectors Society is the premier collectors organization, and they promulgate a “standard sample block” measuring 6″ x 3″ x 1/2″. The smaller IWCS-size samples are much cheaper than these wooden “books” offered by Worlds Wood Library, but there’s no denying the elegance of this idea as a display. The common name is cut into the book’s “spine,” and the latin binomial into its “cover.”
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Beautiful library “books”!
I like the idea, too bad WWL didn’t know that the species component of the binomial is always lower case…
Dave
Similar idea done many years ago. However these books are about the trees and not just the wood.
http://www.tesaf.unipd.it/Sanvito/woodbook.asp