Ratan Technics Introduction

Rattan furniture is one kind of the archaices furnitures in the world, it was pioneer intruduced to Europe by european merchantman in 17th . People first found the rushwork basket in Egypt, the year can be retrospected to 2000 BC, and we offen see the topia which a high official setting in the rattan chair. In the ancient India and Philippines, people choosed rattan to make a variety of furnitures, or making the withe in to the thin and flat splints, than kint them into variety rattan articles.

The rattan's leading yieldly is in the Indonesia, Africa, India, Vietnam, Papua new guinea, Malaysia and Philippines. In the Southeast Asia, Indonesia is the biggest cane supplier, its breed and output is the most comprehensive available. But in 1986, Indonesia government in order to protect its industry, carried out the embargo to prohibition the raw materials export, just permit the semi-finished products to export. In result, the rattan ware factory which nearby the Southeast Asia imported the Indonesia rattan material thought Singapore or other areas. Or use the chinese and Vietnamese cane. The Indonesia rattan no matter the pliability or the compactness better then the other countrys' rattan. China also product the rattan, but the quality is not very good, its condyle is big, the pliability not very good and unpliable.

Vietnam is a developing country£¬which not only supply the cane materials but also the labor force were very cheap, so there any merchant attend to the it rattan market; the rattan quality grow in Vietnam was still have a long distance with which grow in Indonesia. There are any kinds of rattans use for kniting furniture, include Agate cane, Padan cane, Durzi cane, In which the Agate cane was extolled as the king in the rattan material. The Agate cane is famous for its nice surface, compact structure, not easy to crack, so Its high quality cost very expensive.