Oh huh, I remember some things styled of wood that was stained or whatever so it was practically white with black veining. If I can figure that out I could see it working for the front room walls
Seriously, does anyone know what this was called, or even just what species it started with? The effect was like those snowy forests of trees with the white papery bark, but this was (I assume treated somehow) the wood
Was it spalted wood? If the base wood color is extremely light it can end up with very striking black lines that look kind of like ink lines on a near-white background.
May well be! But then I still need to figure exactly what the breed was to get the patterns I was thinking of
Like, this is something I saw from middle-class-before-WWII-when-that-still-meant-top-20% places in SE Pennsylvania, where they had had some time to figure out how to make wood look nice
And in fact when they had been around long enough that highly processed signifiers of an earlier, rougher time woulda been a thing
Like I’m not at all talking about the reclaimed barnwood thing, some of those barns were probably being built when this stuff was in style
No, it’s really not that kinda organic marble thing. The pale parts were white, like whitewashed white, and the dark parts were black. I can think of two wood species(/cutting orientations?) this was done with one it looked like blurry edges of a fingerprint whose center was 3 floors away and one was almost like the black parts were spindly trunks and branches in their own right? Or maybe this was a childhood fever-memory?
