After rattan vines are cut, they are straightened into logs and made into furniture, baskets, and other home decor items. Similar to bamboo, rattan is lightweight but also very durable.
So we focus training for our orangutans on processing rattan vines, where the stem is the edible part, but our orangutans have to learn how to skin the vine without sticking all the little thorns ...
While rattan was a popular material for furniture in the 1970s, Crespi’s idea of creating a modular design by repeating the coiled vines was innovative for the time, and the pieces’ reissue 50 years ...
He leafed through piles of raw cotton and vintage books about wicker and rattan furniture, pondering new ways of weaving. Thorny smilax vines were strewed underfoot, and a sandaled reporter ...