Of Baskets - Story of Cane
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A one-page article on the origin and processing of cane and reed for basketry and chair seating, reprinted with permission from the Comcraft Cane Seating Handbook of Peerless Reed and Rattan Mfg. Co. It explains that cane is the outer skin stripped from rattan vines and reed is the inner core. It describes how rattan is harvested in the South Pacific jungles, transported, sulphured, sorted, soaked, split and shaved into cane and reed.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- April 1982
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- By permission. PDF provided by Judith Combs.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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