Myanmar is so abundant in natural resources and its environs are filled with beautiful mountains and rivers that make the Myanmar scene so beautiful. Cane is one of our forest products which has unique quality and so outstanding. Because you can bend rattan as necessary and depending on its sizes you can make various types of furniture and one can use the whole rattan or just the core or the grain as you prefer to.

The most popular types of rattan that is being used are Khabaung, Yamahta, Yay and Egg canes.
To make a rattan product, first you have to choose and inspect the quality of the rattan thoroughly. After inspecting the rattan, you choose the Khabaung type and first put the rattan in the machine to smooth out the nodes. While doing it, you have to adjust the size and make it equal simultaneously. Mostly, the sizes of rattan are 20mm, 22mm, 24mm, 26mm, 28mm, 30mm and 32mm. It is very important to choose the right size to make the product you want. Then you have to smooth it. For a very tiny size of rattan, you have to use the knife paring out the nodes by hand which is rather difficult and needs experience to learn at technique. These types of very small rattan are mostly yay and egg rattans. After removing the nodes, you have to sought out the rattans according to their sizes or take off the grain by machine and hence you get only the rattan core.

Then to shape it into the design you want, you have to apply heat with gas stoves and bend or straighten it. The expert’s touch in this work is needed. When making out a rough model you can not only bend and straighten the rattan giving heat with gas stove but you can also make the rattan giving a rough model. The design molder plays a vital role too. Hence, with patience and creativeness, a modern designed rattan furniture is born.

Afterwards, the rattan work begins. Only an expert in this field can create the standardized rattan furniture of international standard thus fulfilling the requirements of the rattan market. Then preliminary inspection of the finished product is carried out. After that, the final touches begins. Before polishing, you have to clean and wipe out even small particles and afterwards, the polishing comes. The finished rattan products are then coated with lacquer and finally, there is a quality inspection. Only after that the rattan wares of very high quality are ready for the market. If you visit a rattan furniture shop, you will be astonished to see the high quality rattan furniture of all kinds which you would adore. Not only big furniture but there are small table mats and vases for flowers and wall decorative rattan products of various kinds. Rattan furniture and products are coloured in red, brown, black and white and beige which catch the eyes of the connoisseurs.
Hence, with forest products produced in Myanmar style and Myanmar art becomes favourite and popular rattan wares that people love.