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Wicker


wicker

Wicker is actually woven from many different materials; some of the most common include cane, reed, and rattan. Rattan, a climbing palm indigenous to tropical rain forests of Asia, is the largest source of material used to create wicker. Cane is extracted from the stem of larger rattan trees. Reed is a term assigned to swamp grasses similar to straw.


Rattan

Rattan is a climbing palm exhibiting a slender stem ranging from a few millimetres to some centimetres in diameter, flexible, sometimes more or less armed with spines. While very similar to bamboo, rattan is distinct in that it is solid rather than hollow, and also in their need for some sort of support--while bamboo can grow on its own, rattan cannot. This makes it a potential tool in forest maintainence, since it provides a profitable crop that depends on rather than replaces trees.

Its slender and cylindrical stem, properly worked, is the source of the well known rattan, a valuable and expensive material, much appreciated for the making of furniture, walking-sticks, umbrellas and wickerwork.