Rattan Furniture

Rattan is a palm tree that belonged. One of the functions of rattan is used as a raw material for making furniture such as tables, chairs or other furniture. The use of rattan to create home furnishings already known from earlier. There are good things from furniture made from rattan, but you also have to be good at doing maintenance in order to keep your furniture durable and looks beautiful.

Indonesia supplies 70% of the cane in the world. The rest of the market is filled from Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Most rattan from forests in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Nusa Tenggara. Therefore rattan widely used as raw material for furniture, such as chairs, coffee table, and a bookcase. Rattan has several advantages than wood, such as light weight, strong, elastic, malleable, and cheap. The main drawback of rattan is easily affected by termites. In addition, rattan faster growing and relatively easy to harvest so it is considered more profitable than furniture or furniture made of wood.

With rattan furniture will look classic, so its use is not lost though many other raw materials are now used. Prices of household furniture or furniture made of rattan furniture is not as expensive to made with a wooden base but have almost the same strength. Chair or table made of rattan is lighter and simpler so that suitable placed in a room that is small and easy to move.