Peruvian Black Copal (Bursera Copallifera) Larvikite Islamic geometric design

Islamic geometric design

its formula running to a dozen elements

Named from the Greek rhodon

camphor-like smoke of the oils in its leaf

both inward and outward

Peruvian Black Copal (Bursera Copallifera) Larvikite Islamic geometric designBlack Copal from Peru is the rainforest cousin of Mexican copal a different genus, Protium copal, with a deeper and slower character than the Bursera copals of the north. Andean and Amazonian cultures have burned it independently of Mesoamerica for centuries. On charcoal the piece softens slowly, releasing earthy resin and sweet pine before deepening into amber and dry wood. Slower than White Copal, less linear than Hojari the kind of session that