ALLOWS YOU TO BUY CANE AND WICKER FURNITURE
AT DISCOUNT PRICES
DELIVERED THROUGHOUT THE UK.
WE ARE ABLE TO OFFER A VERY BIG SELECTION OF CANE FURNITURE;
THREE PIECE SUITES AND ACCESSORIES, DINNING SUITES, BEDROOM FURNITURE ETC. ETC.,
IN FACT, CANE FURNITURE FOR ANY PART OF YOUR HOUSE AS WELL AS FOR THE CONSERVATORY.
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We only offer furniture using the correct name for any individual suite.
The furniture (including all cushions) comes straight to us from the particular manufacturer.
We do not offer lookalikes which have been given the same name.
If you are already interested in a suite of cane furniture that you like; and it is
in our
online catalogue
under the same BRAND and NAME,then it is the same suite; If it is not in our online catalogue,
then do not hesitate to
E-mail us with the name and/or description as there is a very good chance that
we will be able to give you a quote (inclusive of delivery to your home) at a price to delight you.
About the materials used in manufacture.
In the past the term cane furniture was often used to describe chairs in which a mesh of
split canes was stretched over parts of a hardwood framework, principally on the backs and
seats. It was originally imported from India by the East India Company, and cane furniture
was fashionable in England toward the end of the 17th century. Some reproduction items in
this style are still sold, but usually using prewoven sheets of the cane splits rather than
weaving them in the traditional way.
Rattan is the most common type of material that is used for what is sold as cane furniture
in the UK nowadays. Bamboo, which is entirely different, is also used,
but this is usually a lot thicker than rattan and because it is difficult to bend, the shapes
and designs available in bamboo cane furniture are restricted.
The word wicker, although often used as an alternative name for rattan, is in fact derived
from the old English word for willow which was traditionally woven into 'wickerware' in
European countries long before rattan was imported here. So wicker really only means
the woven style. Nowadays most wicker furniture is made with rattan poles,
the weaving being usually thin rounded pieces of rattan core, but can be other tropical canes
such as arorog or pulet.
Also more recently various other materials are being used for the wicker work (water hyacinth,
banana leaf, seagrass etc.), but the products are still frequently referred to under the
umbrella name of cane furniture.
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