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Handmade Rattan - Chinese Rural Decoration

Weaving handicrafts and practical products with the skin and core of rattan stems as raw materials.
Tengchong, bordering Myanmar, is rich in a kind of tough and extremely long vine plant - rattan, whose skin is glossy, smooth and elastic, which looks like contempt rather than contempt, so it is called rattan, which is a good natural weaving material. The rattan chairs, rattan boxes and other daily utensils made by Tengchong people are exquisite in craftsmanship, diverse in variety and durable. They have been loved by consumers throughout the ages.

Rattan weaving generally goes through more than ten processes, including rattan beating (cutting the knots on the rattan), rattan picking, rattan washing, rattan drying, rattan twisting, rattan pulling (planing), rattan cutting, bleaching, dyeing, weaving, painting, etc. Rattan weaving is mainly made of rattan branches, rattan cores or bamboo as the skeleton, and then woven with rattan skins or young rattan cores, giving full play to the soft and non-breaking characteristics of rattan.
In terms of color, most of them use the light yellow of the original rattan, or they are processed and bleached into white and ivory, which appears soft and elegant, while some are matched with coffee and brown. Rattan furniture is made of thick rattan as the skeleton, nailed frame, and then woven with rattan skin and core, and finally painted or colored.