Craft From Rattan

About Craft From Rattan Android App

Rattan is a group of palma from the Calameae fern that has a climbing habitus, notably Calamus, Daemonorops, and Oncocalamus. Puak Calameae itself consists of about six hundred members, with a dispersal area in the tropics. traditionally not classified as rattan plants. Rattan stems are usually slim with a diameter of 2-5 cm, long segments, not hollow, and many are protected by long, hard, and sharp thorns.

These spines serve as a means of self-defense of herbivores, as well as help climbing, because rattan is not equipped with tendrils. A rattan can reach hundreds of meters long. The rattan rod removes water if it is slashed and can be used as a means of survival in the wild. Javan rhinoceros is also known to make rattan as one of the menu. Rattan is known to have many benefits for the needs of human life

native plants of Indonesia is much used as a community of Indonesia as a handicraft, both as decoration and as a daily aid tool, due to its flexible form makes rattan easy to be formed into a variety of handicrafts, other than that the short growing rattan to harvest makes it more profitable than wood.

Rattan is generally shaped into simple furniture such as chairs, tables and other tools such as containers that we often see on motorcycles. The processing of rattan into handicrafts also requires a process that is not small, as well as handicrafts in general, the hardest process in making rattan handicrafts is a complicated perangkainnya preoses, rattan can not directly be assembled into handicrafts but must go through stages such as drying for rattan into More flexible in the series.