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Calamus rotang, also known as common rattan, is a plant species native to India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar (Burma). It is one of the scandent (climbing) rattan palms used to make Malacca cane furniture, baskets, walking-sticks, umbrellas, tables and general wickerwork, and is found in Southwest Asia. The basal section of the plant grows vertically ...
Rattan. Calamus thwaitesii in southwestern India. Juvenile Calamus oblongus subsp. mollis in a forest understory in the Philippines. Rattan, also spelled ratan (from Malay: rotan), is the name for roughly 600 species of Old World climbing palms belonging to subfamily Calamoideae. The greatest diversity of rattan palm species and genera are in ...
Ceratolobus was a dioecious genus of flowering plants in the palm family found in Southeast Asia, commonly called rotan. Its species are now included within the genus Calamus . [1] They were only differentiated from Calamus and close relatives like Korthalsia by leaf sheath appendages or inflorescence variations. [2]
Calamus manan, the manau rattan or rotan manau, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae, native to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A vine, its single stem is widely harvested from the wild for cane furniture-making, leading to an unsustainable population decline. [ 3 ]
Tenun is an artful Indonesian technique of making a fabric by weaving different colours of threads. [1] Tenun belongs to one of the typical Indonesian cultural arts produced by hand skills using traditional looms. The word Tenun itself has a high meaning, historical value, and technique in terms of colors, motifs, and types of materials and ...
Ikat (literally "to bind" in Malayo-Polynesian languages) is a dyeing technique from Southeast Asia used to pattern textiles that employs resist dyeing on the yarns prior to dyeing and weaving the fabric. In Southeast Asia, where it is the most widespread, ikat weaving traditions can be divided into two general groups of related traditions.
Informally, the term caning, as well as strokes of the cane and strokes of the rotan, is used. In both legislation and press reports, the term used is caning. Dimensions of the cane About 1.2 m (3.9 ft) long and no more than 1.27 cm (0.5 in) in diameter About 1.09 m (3.6 ft) long and no more than 1.25 cm (0.49 in) in diameter
Fuchsia (/ ˈfjuːʃə /, FEW-shə) is a vivid pinkish-purplish- red color, [ 1 ] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The color fuchsia was introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in ...