I have a build coming up to store the heirloom textiles. One of my great grandmas especially was beast mode making doilies, a tatter I think. So I have a box full of things made out of cloth or thread.
Reading up on aromatic cedar (Juniperus virginiana), the wood panels need to be sanded down to aromatic every 3-7 years to keep the bug repellant in effect.
I am too old to be making new drawers for the heirloom textiles once or twice (or thrice) per decade. I am leaning towards making the external case out of show hardwood, beech or white oak most likely; using poplar as a secondary wood, and then using nominal clipboard sized pieces of aromatic cedar (perhaps 8x 11x 0.5 inches) within the drawers among the textiles as bug repellant. When the smell goes away I could, in my dotage, just run the cedar panels through a lunchbox planer, clean the dust off them and re-pack the drawers with fresh cedar scent and old textiles.
Other than cleaning the fresh wood dust off the freshly freshened up panels, is there another downside here I am overlooking?
Thanks