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    Rattan is commonly used for weaving furniture due to its flexibility and strength. It is peeled and cut into strips which are woven into chair seats, backs, and used to bind furniture joints. Rattan is lightweight, withstands humidity and temperature extremes, and is resistant to insects. It has many applications including furniture, handicrafts, and household items. Rattan strips are widely woven into seating furniture through traditional and machine weaving techniques to provide flexible, lightweight, and durable support. Rattan furniture production has lower environmental impact than other materials like wood, metal, and plastic.

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    Rattan is commonly used for weaving furniture due to its flexibility and strength. It is peeled and cut into strips which are woven into chair seats, backs, and used to bind furniture joints. Rattan is lightweight, withstands humidity and temperature extremes, and is resistant to insects. It has many applications including furniture, handicrafts, and household items. Rattan strips are widely woven into seating furniture through traditional and machine weaving techniques to provide flexible, lightweight, and durable support. Rattan furniture production has lower environmental impact than other materials like wood, metal, and plastic.

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    Rattan is commonly used for weaving furniture due to its flexibility and strength. It is peeled and cut into strips which are woven into chair seats, backs, and used to bind furniture joints. Rattan is lightweight, withstands humidity and temperature extremes, and is resistant to insects. It has many applications including furniture, handicrafts, and household items. Rattan strips are widely woven into seating furniture through traditional and machine weaving techniques to provide flexible, lightweight, and durable support. Rattan furniture production has lower environmental impact than other materials like wood, metal, and plastic.

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    Rattan is commonly used for weaving furniture due to its flexibility and strength. It is peeled and cut into strips which are woven into chair seats, backs, and used to bind furniture joints. Rattan is lightweight, withstands humidity and temperature extremes, and is resistant to insects. It has many applications including furniture, handicrafts, and household items. Rattan strips are widely woven into seating furniture through traditional and machine weaving techniques to provide flexible, lightweight, and durable support. Rattan furniture production has lower environmental impact than other materials like wood, metal, and plastic.

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    Rattan is the most common natural material used for the production of woven furniture (Meijaard et al.

    2014). Rattan is primarily used as a building material because of its flexibility and its long stems of great

    strength. It is used to provide structural pieces in furniture and construction in its un-split state

    (Raycheva & Angelova, 2017). To use the rattan pole's outer skin as weaving material, it is usually peeled

    off. The skin is cut into strips and used to weave chair seats and backs as well as to bind furniture joints

    together for reinforcement and decorative purposes (Benhua et al., 2016).

    Additionally, rattan is considered as one of the most essential and significant raw materials that have

    been continuously utilized in the Philippines. As a material, rattan is lightweight and supple, can

    withstand extreme conditions of humidity and temperature, and incorporates a natural resistance to

    insects (Grass, 2019). It has wide and diverse applications, including the production of furniture,

    handicrafts, and household items (Widayati & Carlisle, 2012).

    Aside from that, Gu & Zhang (2020) stated that natural rattan strips are widely woven into seat and back

    supporting surfaces of seating furniture through traditional handicraft techniques and simple weaving

    machinery. Natural rattan strips offer sitters flexible, lightweight, breathable, comfortable, and long-

    lasting support.

    Woven furniture follows the basic rules of basket weaving; thus, some of the shapes produced bear a

    strong resemblance to a basket or receptacle. Basketry, as defined by Balfet and cited by Raycheva and

    Angelova (2017), is the creation of receptacles made of interwoven rather than rigid material. Still, it

    may also include pliant sacks made of a mesh indistinguishable from netting – or garments or pieces of

    furniture made of the same materials and using the same processes as classical basket-making.

    Furthermore, rattan furniture has low embodied energy and therefore is considered more

    environmentally friendly than furniture produced from other materials such as wood, metals, and

    plastics (Amoah et al., 2017). Rattan products have some advantages compared to other industrial forest
    raw materials since the products are relatively cheaper in cost, stiffer, durable, beautiful, comfortable to

    use, light, portable, and have an aesthetic sense (Aminah et al., 2017; Edi Glenn, 2014).

    In 2019, the Asia-Pacific region remained the largest exporting area of rattan products, exporting USD

    299 million worth of rattan products, or 82% of the world total (INBAR, 2021). Due to the increasing

    demand for environmentally friendly products in Europe and the United States, the position of rattan on

    the world market is expanding (Nfornkah et al., 2022). The world’s rattan sector is estimated to generate

    global revenue of USD 10 billion annually (Myers, 2015; Gonmadje et al., 2018).

    According to Ngo-Samnick (2012), rattan can be grown and harvested in a sustainable manner due to its

    rapid growth and ability to adapt to a wide range of ecological conditions. Additionally, it offers an

    alternative to timber logging, protecting forest resources in the process. According to Gonmadje et al.,

    as cited by Nfornkah et al. (2022) the rattan harvesting cycle can take 3–4 years, and collectors harvest

    10–15 stems per month, for which the cost of a bundle varies between $3.54 in rural areas and $21.21

    in urban areas.

    Rattan products are becoming more and more commoditized as a result of increased globalization, and

    artisans nowadays find their products competing with goods from all around the world. To be

    competitive in the current market environment, rattan furniture manufacturers and makers must adopt

    an innovative strategy that will give them a competitive edge not only in the aspects of technology but

    also in aesthetics and utilities (Abdullah et al., 2016).

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