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   Abaca
   Cane
   Chair
   Cirebon
   Dining Room
   Exporter
   Furniture
   Handicraft
   Indonesia
   Living Room
   Mahogany
   Manufacturer
   Planet
   Rattan
   Sofa
   Teak
   Water Hyacinth
   West Java
   Wicker
   Wood

Abacá
The leaves grow from the trunk of the plant, and the bases of the leaves form a sheath (covering) around the trunk. These sheaths contain the valuable fibre. The coarse fibres range from 5 to 11½ feet (1.5 to 3.5 metres) in length....   read more >>


Cane
A cane is a long, straight wooden stick, generally of bamboo, Malacca (rattan), or some similar plant, mainly used as a support, such as a walking stick or as an instrument of punishment. Depending on the use it is left in its natural state or improved (e.g., smoothened, varnished)....   read more >>


Chair
A chair is a piece of furniture for sitting, consisting of a seat, a back, and sometimes arm rests, commonly for use by one person. Chairs also often have four legs to support the seat raised above the floor....  read more >>

Cirebon
Cirebon (formerly Cheribon) is a city on north coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is located in West Java province, approximately 297 km east of Jakarta, at 6°43'S 108°34'E....   read more >>


Dining Room
A typical North American dining room will contain a table with chairs arranged along the sides and ends of the table, as well as other pieces of furniture, (often used for storing formal china), as space permits....  read more >>


Exporter
In economics, an export is any good or commodity, transported from one country to another country in a legitimate fashion, typically for use in trade. Export is an important part of international trade. Its counterpart is import....  read more >>


Furniture
Furniture can be a product of artistic design and is considered a form of decorative art. In addition to furniture's functional role, it can serve a symbolic or religious purpose....  read more >>


Handicraft
Handicraft, also known as craftwork or simply craft, is a type of work where useful and decorative devices are made completely by hand or using only simple tools. Usually the term is applied to traditional means of making goods....  read more >>


Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia), is a nation of 17,508 islands in the South East Asian archipelago, making it the world's largest archipelagic state. With a population of over 200 million, it is the world's fourth most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority nation....  read more >>


Living Room
In modern homes and apartments the living room has replaced the old fashioned parlour. In the 19th century, the parlor was the room in the house where the recently deceased were laid out before their funeral. This became the more affirmative term "living room" in the 20th century....  read more >>


Mahogany
The name mahogany is used when referring to numerous varieties of dark-colored wood, originally the wood of the species Swietenia mahagoni, sometimes referred to as Spanish or Cuban Mahogany....  read more >>


Manufacturer
Manufacturing, a branch of industry, is the application of tools and a processing medium to the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale. This effort includes all intermediate processes required for the production and integration of a product's components....  read more >>


Planet
Historically, there had been no formal scientific definition of "planet" and without one, the Solar System had been considered to have various planets over the years. This changed when a resolution covering planets within our solar system was formally adopted by the IAU in 2006, limiting the number to eight....  read more >>


Rattan
Rattan (from the Indonesian "rotan"), is the name for the roughly six hundred species of palms in the tribe Calameae, native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australasia. Most rattans are distinct from other palms in having slender stems 2-5 cm diameter with long internodes between the leaves....  read more >>


Sofa
A couch, and a sofa, settee, lounge, davenport or chesterfield are items of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person. Compare the joiner's settle, with its separate seat cushions....  read more >>


Teak
Teak (Tectona), also called jati is a genus of tropical hardwood trees in the family Verbenaceae, native to the south and southeast of Asia, and is commonly found as a component of monsoon forest vegetation. They are large trees, growing to 30-40 m tall, deciduous in the dry season....  read more >>


Water Hyacinth
One of the fastest growing plants known, water hyacinth reproduces primarily by way of runners or stolons, eventually forming daughter plants. They may also reproduce via seeds....  read more >>


West Java
History shows that West Java is the first province in Indonesia, referring to a statement from Staatblad number 378. In 1950, West Java province officially became a province of Indonesia....  read more >>


Wicker
Wicker is any sort of hard woven plant fiber formed into a useful object. Wicker is usually used for baskets or furniture....  read more >>


Wood
Wood is a solid material derived from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. Wood from the latter is only produced in small sizes, reducing the diversity of uses....  read more >>