Rattan Furniture: Quality From Finest Rattan Materials and Rattan Synthetic

Boema Rattan is manufacturer and exporter of rattan furniture in Indonesia. Our furniture materials chosen from the finest rattan materials such as manau canes, tohiti, batang, sega, rattan peel and rattan core. We use other natural materials and natural fibers such as wicker, sea grass, water hyacinth, abaca, and banana. We also use aluminum frame and rattan synthetic weave such as loom for outdoor collection.

Boema Rattan collections of rattan furniture consist of living room collection, dining room collection, bed room collection, sofas, chairs, racks and storage, rattan accessories, outdoor collection and many more.

As leading rattan furniture manufacturer, Boema Rattan cater all you need of rattan furniture and wicker furniture. We have capability to customize your orders on request. All of your rattan furniture design and models can be make. Please take advantage of our expertise in customized orders.

With total production capacity 5 containers of 40 feet monthly, Boema Rattan undoubtedly have loyal customers. Our rattan furniture and wicker furniture are mainly for overseas market. We exported rattan furniture and wicker furniture worldwide.

Boema Rattan committed to quality. We are proud to uphold the company commitment to quality and excellence in everything we do. Indeed, we take into account three main aspects in manufacture rattan furniture, there are skilled and talented craftsmen, the best of raw materials and our experience.

Rattan is one of natural’s strongest material and suitable material for making furniture. Rattan is lightweight, durable, and flexible to construct for making furniture. Rattan strand is using for furniture frame. Rattan skin which is usually peeled off is used as rattan weaving material. While rattan core is used also for weaving and various purposes of rattan furniture.

Indonesia is by far the largest sources of rattan in the world so that it plays a highly important role in rattan industry. In line, Plumbon in Cirebon, Indonesia is the biggest cluster of rattan furniture manufacturer in Indonesia. Boema Rattan workshop location is in Desa Gombang, Plumbon, Cirebon. Thus it is a perfect place to developed design and production process.

We invite you to see our rattan furniture collections. Boema Rattan. The Art of Rattan Furniture.

Rattan at a Glance

Rattan is a name of trees that grow in the tropical rain forest. Rattan is belong to palms species. Rattan is a long strand with small diameter and a solid cane. Rattan is very strong and easy to bend and construct. Rattan grows in South East Asia, in Malaysia, Philippine, Myanmar and Indonesia. According to the data from Wikipedia, by far Indonesia is the biggest rattan producer in the world with production 70%. In Indonesia, rattan grows in Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumbawa, Sumatera, Mentawai Island and Siberut Island.

In the forest, rattan climbs on tree which is support rattan to grow longer. Rattan flexibility need supported by other tree. Rattan also grows on the forest ground.
Rattan grows under the canopy tree whether in primary forest or secondary forest even on the plantation. Thus rattan is mutually symbioses with tree. Rattan is one of nature's strongest materials and second only important as wood. Rattan is easy to mold by steaming and once molded its contour shape permanently. That’s way rattan is ideal material for furniture.

Rattan has multipurpose function for native people or villagers. For those people thought living in different countries rattan has similar purposes, it usually uses for carry goods as rug sack or to join two objects. Later rattan is made for baskets, mats, chairs and many simple goods.

In Indonesia, the story of rattan has been recorded in early age. The Dayak tribe in Kalimantan Island use rattan for carrying their goods. They put most of their harvest on rattan bag, they also put animal hordes on it. The Dayak tribes still practice their simple life up to now and still using rattan to support their daily activities. The similar way happens in many part of Indonesia by many traditional villagers ranging from Sulawesi Island, NusaTenggara Island, Sumatra Island, in Java remote area and many more

During Dutch colonial era in Indonesia in the 17th century, rattan is become favorite furniture for Dutch. At the time the rattan furniture also ship to Netherlands and later for many places in Europe. In the modern era most of finest rattan furniture in Indonesia is for export. Also, the domestic market as well. The biggest rattan furniture centre in Indonesia is in Plumbon, Cirebon City, West Java. The other centre is in Sukohardjo, near Solo City, Central Java.

Rattan Harvesting

Most of rattan in Indonesia grows wildly in the forest. It is similar to the wood in the forest. However rattan tree is much easier to grow and cultivate than wood. So that harvesting rattan tree is not destructing the forest. It is different when people cutting wood and caused the forest destructed. Harvesting rattan is and ideal alternative for people than cutting the wood.

Rattan harvesting is easy and need simple tolls. One can full down rattan tree with hands and use knife style tolls to cut rattan wasps. When rattan gathered then transported to the workshop to conducted drying process whether under the sun or using boiled chamber to remove spiny sheaths, natural liquid gums and also to protect rattan from beetles.

Rattan Processing

Rattan is placed in a steam box for bending and flexible to mold. Simple jigs from wood and sometimes steel are constructed for mold shapes. Rattan is easy to bend when hot. When rattan is hot, it is to bent fit into the jig. Then when it cooled the shape is remain.

The typical production departments are consisting of three sections. First is the framing section, includes bending and construct mold. Second is weaving section, includes weaving rattan peels or other weaving material as main activities. Third is finishing section, includes painting furniture with environmentally top coating. The critical aspects are production line and scheduling which involved determining what and how rattan furniture to produce. On top of that the quality control is crucial to produces fine furniture. Once finished, the rattan furniture is kept in warehouse for packing and shipping.

Rattan furniture Industry in Plumbon, Cirebon

There is no question that Plumbon is becoming increasingly important as rattan furniture producer in global arena. One only need to type the “rattan furniture” in any internet browser to find out how much rattan furniture manufacturers and exporters in Plumbon. From Google search engine to Alibaba e-commerce all have Plumbon’s rattan furniture. It’s also interesting to know that more and more business venture engage manufacturing and selling rattan furniture, not only in Indonesia but also in many places such as Malaysia, Phillipine, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and even China.

As an handicraft, rattan furniture is easy to build using simple production processed. However, it’s need a skillfully craftsman who has an artistic sense. Rattan manufacturer is without high tech industrial infrastructure. Rattan furniture in Plumbon produced with nearly 95% local content. The rattan cane, rattan core, and rattan weaving is made locally with only small portion is import materials such as painting.

In Plumbon, the majority of people are engage in rattan furniture business. Many of men, women, elder or even younger have skill to build rattan furniture. Their workshop are located in an around their home, veranda and backyard. Since to construct rattan furniture is difficult, so the people have specialized skill. Basically the job is divided into three parts that are framing, weaving and finishing. The framing and weaving are doing by people in their home, later the products are send to factory workshop for finishing.

Today as the word being globalization the Plubon’s rattan industry also market the products worldwide. The global market is very important for the growth of bmall and medium sizes company as many of them depend only on global market. As for domestic market the size is small. The globalization has direct and positive impacts for development of Plumbon’s rattan industry in much way. One of them are in design and quality control.