POTENTIAL OF INDONESIAN RATTAN AS FURNITURE RAW MATERIAL
Rattan is a palm tree which creep, climb, and thorny. Rattan is also known as tropical and sub-tropical forest plant which fertile grow in Asia countries. Because rattan is tropical plant, it is very suitable to be planted in Indonesia. This plant as sources of rattan rod for Indonesian rattan furniture industry. Most of rattan rod which enter world market is collected from wild plants in many South East Asia countries. Indonesia has most wide variety of rattan compared to other South East Asia countries. Rattan is an important forest product after wood.
Rattan function as raw materials to manufacture interior furniture, especially rattan chair is related to creativity and skill of the furniture maker. Many customers from Europe, United States, and Asia are amaze and interested with the fruniture products made from natural material, like rattan which is environmental friendly.
Indonesian Rattan potential is ±85&% and separate into the world. Even, Indonesian is the only one country that could provide big capacity of rattan and become number one supplier for the global market. It meant that rattan in Indonesia is a " gold mining". |
WICKER FURNITURE
One of furniture type, produced by Indonesian Furniture is Wicker Furniture. Wicker Furniture is made from strong woven fiber. Some of woven fiber originally come from natural plants like rattan, banana fiber, seagrass, water hyacinth, etc. Beside natural source, many of woven fiber is made from plastic. Taking care of wicker furniture is quite easy, but some soft material of wicker plastic needs special care.
Since ancient times of Egypt, Wicker has been very widely used to produce lots of things. Common products like furniture (chair, table, mat, etc). Wicker outstanding feature as strong and tough material give special benefit for furniture user, it can withstand quite heavy person. This is because of wicker is a unique fiber combination. But single fiber is very easy to tear.
You need to pay attention to avoid your pet accidentally tear the fiber woven. If it happened, try to put back the fiber into its original weave or if it can not be done, simply cut it to prevent further ripping.
A lot of wicker furniture used as garden/ outdoor furniture. Wicker plastic material is good enough to withstand the rain/weather, same thing with special treated natural wicker.
Hybrid, is a modern technology that used material combination like metal, aluminium or wood to enhance strength of wicker furniture.
Sponge and fabric usually used to increase the comfortability and decrease damage of wicker sofa. |
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Quantities - Besides wholesale, you can buy our Indonesian furniture as individual items. See our shipping info. |
FURNITURE FINISHING
Finishing process in wooden furniture and wicker furniture industries is a last important sequence of all production stage, with purpose to get certain benefit. One of furniture finishing benefit is enhance durable value or usage lifespan of furniture product. To get best result, we need to know about influence factors such as:
- finishing system
- wooden knowledge
- way of application
- operational condition
- placement of finishing result
Ignoring one of the above will result on imperfect or fail. |
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WOODEN FURNITURE
To produce good quality wooden furniture, care should be taken from the beginning process where wood is taken.
To get high value of wood texture, wooden surface must be flat, cleaned, and taken properly. Scratch result from shaving, athwart scratch and damage part when wood is taken, most of the time will be shown after coloring and covered with lacquer. Glossy wooden surface will bump un-even surface. It is important to know that take the wood with machine or manual, should be done in same direction with wood fiber and light pressure. |
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