Rattan Production and Quality Controls

Below is a brief story and  explanation of how our products are made and to show the time and care required for each and every item we produce.   We hope the following informatoin creates awareness and appreciation for the amount of work and care that goes into each and every piece that we provide under our Rattan Island and Rattan Home brands.

Framing accessories - The frame of our rattan products is very solid to ensure consistancy of shapes and precise sizes as well as durability.  Our skilled craftsmen create the shape nailing together the rattan cane that forms the structure of our rattan products.

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Weaving Rattan Accessories -  After a framer has created the first line of the rattan frame our weavers then use a 2mm width of rattan skin weave around the rattan poles and hold together the structure in a strong durable way.   After each pole/layer is woven the girl returns the product back to the framer to add another layer/pole of the frame for the weaver to continue weaving and so on.

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Weaving Furniture & Large Items in the Factory - All the furniture items are woven in our factory as it takes great expertise in creating the frame of the rattan products to ensure they are stable and of a high quality for the international export market. Below is a video of two weavers weaving a single sofa.

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Blow torch to remove the loose rattan hair - When the products arrive from the village weavers all the items have small lose rattan hairs.  In order to quickly remove the hairs, the products are blasted quickly with a blow torch to remove the lose hairs.

Sanding the products with a fine sand paper to make the products smooth. - After the products have been blasted with a blow torch, each product is sanded by hand to ensure that all the product surfaces are smooth as shown below.be smooth

 

Rattan is quite absorbant and therefore in order for us to produce the desired colours we first of all require to paint by hand with a laquer polish.quered I & II

Painting Black Varnish - Our most common colour is our Antique Brown colour and to make this colour we use a black paint mix which is applied to the products.  It will later be removed untill the colour is at the required brown colour.

Removing the varnish - To achieve the customers required colours a black paint is used but when it is applied to the rattan it appears brown when removed.

Final Quality Control - to ensure any broken pieces of rattan or any small hairs that have not been removed at the first stage of Quality Control checking are removed and replaced so that the products are of the highest quality available.

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Spraying Lacquer - In order to seal the products and to give the products a crisp shinny appearance the final stage of colouring is to seal the products with a varnish.

Final Checking by concerned Manager - Each and every product is finally checked by the manager in charge for colour, quality, shape, size, etc..... one final time before packing for shipment.