Basically, this craft is a form of activity to process the raw materials into a product unit. To carry out the process or activity required a process of a gradual series. The design of the production process in this case will depend on the characteristics of the product and the pattern needs to be met in the project of making the product.
The production process is carried out under the bamboo furniture business requires only simple equipment due to more use of the expertise / skills of the human hand to produce this craft.
How to make furniture from bamboo:
Preparation of raw materials and supporting material
Raw materials in the course of business is wulung black bamboo (Gigantochloa verticillata) can still be obtained easily in the region Purworejo. craftsmen facilitated the availability of raw materials, as bamboo farmers have set up a bamboo rod needs to transport the bamboo workshop.
Drying
Bamboo that is used for making furniture, generally cut after the age of 13 months considering that bamboo has had age and girth enough to be processed to produce handicrafts. In the tropics, bamboo plants are usually less durable because it contains starch favored by termites and a good place for the fungus to grow due to high temperature and humidity, so it requires process of drying and preservation of bamboo to become harder and can last up to more than 10 years.
Preservation / Storage
There are several methods of preservation are applied to the stems of bamboo, which is tailored to the allotment of bamboo. Bamboo craft materials for the purposes of mesh will undergo a long process of preservation, which is about 3-6 months, by the way were immersed into a stagnant pond, or slow-moving.
While bamboo as raw material for the manufacture of bamboo furniture after drying through the process of reliance, drained / put with the sleeping position on a building that is protected from heat and rain, but still be exposed to direct wind. This process takes between 15-20 days until ready to be processed into bamboo furniture.
The production process is carried out under the bamboo furniture business requires only simple equipment due to more use of the expertise / skills of the human hand to produce this craft.
How to make furniture from bamboo:
Preparation of raw materials and supporting material
Raw materials in the course of business is wulung black bamboo (Gigantochloa verticillata) can still be obtained easily in the region Purworejo. craftsmen facilitated the availability of raw materials, as bamboo farmers have set up a bamboo rod needs to transport the bamboo workshop.
Drying
Bamboo that is used for making furniture, generally cut after the age of 13 months considering that bamboo has had age and girth enough to be processed to produce handicrafts. In the tropics, bamboo plants are usually less durable because it contains starch favored by termites and a good place for the fungus to grow due to high temperature and humidity, so it requires process of drying and preservation of bamboo to become harder and can last up to more than 10 years.
Preservation / Storage
There are several methods of preservation are applied to the stems of bamboo, which is tailored to the allotment of bamboo. Bamboo craft materials for the purposes of mesh will undergo a long process of preservation, which is about 3-6 months, by the way were immersed into a stagnant pond, or slow-moving.
While bamboo as raw material for the manufacture of bamboo furniture after drying through the process of reliance, drained / put with the sleeping position on a building that is protected from heat and rain, but still be exposed to direct wind. This process takes between 15-20 days until ready to be processed into bamboo furniture.
