
For thousands of years people have used rattan for a lot of different purposes. Most rattan is made into furniture, but other uses are for rope and baskets. In the Asia it is used for hammocks, sleeping mats, fish traps, and baskets.
Today rattan is the second most important product after lumber. Millions of pounds are shipped out each year. Many kinds of rattan are threatened because of how much is being cut down. The forests that they depend on are also being cut down mostly because of logging.

Seagrass Furniture or sea grass Furniture, hand-woven also from water hyacinth, banana leaf, rattan peel and rattan furniture from Indonesia. This natural fiber hand woven furniture is hand crafted from the natural fibers of seagrass, water hyacinth, banana leaf and rattan peel furniture. We feature Dining Room Chair from seagrass furniture with frames made from Mahogany or Teak we also feature living chairs from water hyacinth and sofas from rattan and wicker. We also offer dining room tables, coffee, sofa and side tables. All of these different types of woven furniture are from natural renuable resources. We hope you enjoy our web site on this cutting edge design or new trend for the new millennium. This new style of seagrass furniture, woven rattan and wicker furniture has been showing up in such mail order catalogues as and wholesalers like Padma's Plantation Colonial collection.
We are proud to offer our seagrass, sea grass, water hyacinth, rattan and rattan peel from this hand woven natural fiber furniture at such affordable wholesale prices .contact us to recieve our catalogue and price list. We are offering classic mahogany reproductions, garden outdoor rattan furniture as well as furniture from Indonesia and India.
藤是生长于热带森林中一种多刺的棕榈科攀缘植物,有13类,其中已知的有600种。藤最长可超过185米,由于质地牢固和很强的韧性,藤条被广泛地用于家具和席垫的制造。
藤材料大致分为:大藤(粗藤)、幼藤及加工藤。
大藤常用品种有:玛瑙藤、道以治藤、大麟刨、巴登及豆腐藤多种形态各异用途各有不同的藤。玛瑙藤及道以治藤多产于苏门答腊岛、玛瑙藤及治藤以其节间长,色泽均匀,柔韧程度强之优点可作为家具之藤架用途。大麟刨及豆腐藤外表较粗糙多用于家具直柱及内柱之用。大藤巴登去皮磨光后形态光滑外表漂亮可以作装饰藤件之用途。
幼藤俗称“里藤”,一般有三必、古雾、马臣、野合、式雅、粉藤等品种,大多产处自加里曼丹岛(KSLIMANTART)。其中三必、古雾、马臣、野合其节间细长,外皮色泽均匀,可加工成为上等藤皮,用作编织藤席及扎作家具之用。式雅藤质地较为结实,条纹美观,原枝可用来制作饰件。
厘藤的重要用途除取其表皮外,其蕊用更加广泛,可加成不同粗幼的厘藤蕊(藤骨蕊),其质地柔软,韧力强,适合编织变化多样的图纹及负重的藤具。
柔软度较强的厘藤,如温布尔、楠榜、白芯藤及红藤等,又可加工成用来包扎家具的原色薄藤片及辅助藤料,如方芯(方形藤芯及半月形藤薄片),用途更加广泛,以上各种藤于加里曼丹岛。
藤科的原始加工程序相当繁复,要经过蒸煮、干燥、漂色、防霉、消毒杀菌等工序处理。天然的藤经粗加工后叫藤皮,剥下的藤皮柔韧性较好,可以做捆绑和编织之用。藤条在机器里抽出粗细均匀的丝为藤芯,也是编织的材料。藤条经整理,按大小长短分类,用磨光机磨光滑,再按产品大小、尺寸备好材料,经过藤高温蒸煮,由专业人员手工加热定型、加固后做成产品的基础造型,然后表面用传统的手工编织工艺辅之以藤、藤芯和布面等材料进行加工。风格各异造型精巧,不同图案和花边的藤制品就这样生产出来的。
在人类社会发展的历史长河里,藤以独特的魅力和工艺个性,很早就与我们结下了不解之缘。据《易经·系辞》记载,旧石器时代,人类即以植物韧皮编织成网罟(网状兜物),浙江余姚河姆渡遗址出土的苇席,距今约有 7000 年历史。 1958 年,在浙江湖州钱山漾村新石器时代晚期遗址出土的竹编约有 200 多件,其中大部分篾条经过刮磨加工。唐代,草席生产已很普遍。 19 世纪末我国的藤编织品已经开始出口。
藤有广义和狭义之分,狭义的藤是指原藤,是最早用于建筑的材料之一,藤条可制作各种器具与精美的工艺品,藤叶可遮盖农舍,藤丝可编织蓑衣鞋履,藤芽可为美食珍品,藤鳞果胶可萃取名贵中药。多少年来,藤几乎渗透到了人类祖先和当代人生产生活的每一个角落。人们护藤、养藤,把对藤的依赖融入情感,融入诗画,创造了璀璨的藤文化,在中华文明史上有着光辉的历史。
藤是人类最早开发利用的非木质自然资源,也是仅次于木材的重要林业产品。全球有棕榈藤分布的天然林约 3500 万公顷,亚太地区有 2900 万公顷,年产原藤 32 万吨, 20 世纪 70 年代以来,藤家具产值和国际贸易额以每年 10% 的速度增长。在藤编艺术中,狭义的藤是最精华的部分。
广义的藤是指能用于编织的各种草木本条状原料,或者与条状原料搭配应用于编织工艺的其它原料。我们一般讲藤艺,是指广义而言,据统计,有几十个系列、近千个品种。

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