Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. plant material
8. [wood and wood by product]
9. wood (plant material)
10. [wood by composition or origin]
11. hardwood

Narrower term/s

• common lime (wood)
• American linden (wood)
• small-leafed lime (wood)

Anotations

Scope note:

Light-brown wood from of any of several trees of the genus Tilia, having a straight grain and easily worked. Linden wood is used for furniture and cabinets. Its particular structural character lends itself well to carving, allowing tools to be used both along the grain and to some extent axially. Because linden wood is soft and workable, it has been used since the 1500s for decorative items with intricate carvings, such as picture frames and sculptures. Despite its relative cost, it was the most common wood used for sculpture in Germany. During the late 15th and early 16th centuries limewood was the preferred material for the genre of the winged altarpiece.