baskets chairs

Wicker furniture is tough and durable, but extremely light, which makes it popular for use in both indoors and outdoors living areas…and it has been this way since the beginning of recorded time. Archaeologists have found artifacts made from wicker in Egypt, and dated them to about 1400 B.C.

There is no plant called “wicker”…the term refers to the method in which the chosen material ? rattan, bamboo, willow, or other sturdy but pliable plant fibers ? are woven together -usually through a rattan framework - to form anything from baskets to tables to chairs.

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