Innovation and inheritance of Hand-Woven Rattan Webbing

Through the plain and unadorned time, the rattan weaving workers stick to the skills handed down from generation to generation, and constantly innovate, producing a piece of handicraft with texture and temperature. Those workers are respectful and deserve all the compliments because they devoted themselves to this career.

Generally, rattan weaving goes through more than a dozen processes, such as beating (cutting off the knots on the rattan), picking, washing, drying, bending, pulling (planning), cutting, bleaching, dyeing, weaving, and painting. The rattan is mainly made of rattan branches, rattan cores or bamboo as the skeleton, and then woven with rattan skins or tender rattan cores, giving full play to the characteristics of soft and not easy to break.

In terms of color, most of them adopt the light-yellow color of the original vine or are processed and bleached into white and ivory, which is soft and elegant, while others are matched with brown and brown. Furniture is made of thick rattan as a skeleton, nailed, woven with rattan skin and rattan core, and finally painted or colored.

Lots of young people tend to leave their hometowns, chasing the fortune in big cities that's why this kind of technique is vanishing. The weaving technique is the heritage of our traditional culture and I hope more teenagers can have an interest in it or at least appreciate the finished product. Only when more people pay attention to it can this work last for a long time. Besides, the government should encourage and support this industry which makes all workers feel happy and meaningful to persist in this job.