I remember being in China a long time ago, looking for Jade souvenirs with a local guy from a factory, and he was telling me that he thought Chinese prefer the stone carvings with veins of different colored material, rather than perfectly uniform rock (which I was looking for at the time.)
Anyway, in hindsight, the veins are nice in a western sense - it makes the carvings more interesting - but I think they saw it as a more natural aesthetic (maybe Confusionistic too?). It reminds me of what you’re trying to do in your furniture and being able to show the beauty in what some people would call defects