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With Cane and Leather Details, This DIY Tray Serves Some Serious Style.Whether you're enjoying breakfast in bed, offerin...
09/23/2022

With Cane and Leather Details, This DIY Tray Serves Some Serious Style.

Whether you're enjoying breakfast in bed, offering afternoon tea, or shaking up cocktails, a serving tray is a handy item to have in your home. It happens to look so lovely styled on a coffee table or ottoman.

Let's get it started! Detailed steps noted in each pics.

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Ideas for your linen closet with baskets
09/20/2022

Ideas for your linen closet with baskets

3 Natural Materials For Wicker Laundry Hampers (Part 2)Seagrass Seagrass is an eco-friendly material that has been popul...
09/19/2022

3 Natural Materials For Wicker Laundry Hampers (Part 2)

Seagrass

Seagrass is an eco-friendly material that has been popularly used for wicker hamper production in Vietnam. In 2021, seagrass product exports are the second Seagrass homewares are loved in international markets, especially European countries such as German, France, Spain and Sweden.

Thinner than water hyacinth, yet seagrass is highly durable and not easily worn out or broken. So rest assured, seagrass laundry hampers can function well for years and years. Its natural brown tone can easily fit in various styles such as Boho, Rustic, Farmhouse, Mid-century and Scandinavian.

Not all seagrass weaving styles are a good choice to wicker laundry hampers. Some are relevant, others are not.

3 Natural Materials For Wicker Laundry Hampers (Part 1)Wicker laundry hampers (often called as laundry baskets) are not ...
08/15/2022

3 Natural Materials For Wicker Laundry Hampers (Part 1)

Wicker laundry hampers (often called as laundry baskets) are not only practical for laundry storage, but also for decorating interiors. According to Export Data 2021 from Vietnam Customs, top 3 natural materials of exported homewares are water hyacinth, seagrass, rattan. They’re popularly used in producing laundry hampers, let’s see why they are good fits.

Water Hyacinth

Water hyacinth is among quality fibers for making homewares in general and wicker laundry hampers in particular. In 2021, water hyacinth exports had the largest volume amongst natural homewares exported from Vietnam. This is preferred by consumers in the U.S, Australia, Canada and many European markets. Thanks to its physical property: Long, spongy stalks (stems). The dried stalks are super durable, with a unique honey brown. Water hyacinth hampers feature very strong structure for up to 60-liter storage and earthy tones to match any decors.

Wall art and decor are great tools for sprucing up your interior. It can give a brightness to your walls, enhance your i...
08/13/2022

Wall art and decor are great tools for sprucing up your interior. It can give a brightness to your walls, enhance your interior style all whilst creating a harmonious finish to the room.

Showcase some character to your walls by adding beautiful Rattan Wall Deco Baskets. These baskets add contrast and texture to any space with its unique style. Each basket is handwoven with rattan, or bamboo, allowing each piece to be unique and providing your space with that natural, organic charm.

Bamboo is among the fastest-growing plants in the world. It belongs to grass, so basically bamboo is not a tree. Bamboo ...
08/11/2022

Bamboo is among the fastest-growing plants in the world. It belongs to grass, so basically bamboo is not a tree. Bamboo grows popularly in tropical and sub-tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, also in northern Australia.

Bamboo stems are mostly used in producing homewares. The stem has two parts, one is the underground portion (called the rhizome) and another is the emergent portion (called the culm).

Bamboo features an upright, woody culm which is commonly hollow on the inside. The cylinder-like structure with cross-walls placed at regular intervals along the culm offers great strength and flexibility for bamboo. In addition, the outer skin is really tough and hard, providing protection for the whole stem.

However, like other natural materials, most bamboo homeware products need to be kept away from sunlight and moisture environments, particularly rain and ground contact. In other words, they are more suitable for indoor uses.

BRING IN BOHO VIBES WITH RATTAN MIRRORS.If you’re obsessed with the bohemian look, a rattan mirror is a must for your wa...
08/10/2022

BRING IN BOHO VIBES WITH RATTAN MIRRORS.

If you’re obsessed with the bohemian look, a rattan mirror is a must for your wall. While some rattan mirrors have simple frames, you can also find rattan mirrors with intricate designs and woven patterns.

Rattan coreRattan stems are peeled to get rattan cores. These cores will then be split into long round strands for weavi...
08/10/2022

Rattan core

Rattan stems are peeled to get rattan cores. These cores will then be split into long round strands for weaving products such as storage baskets, bags indoor planters, lampshades, or mirror frames. Thin rattan core strands have a matt finish and very strong, sturdy nature, but not as smooth, soft and flexible as willow.

Rattan CaneRattan canes are what we get after harvest and some primary processing such as oil-curing and drying. Rattan ...
08/09/2022

Rattan Cane

Rattan canes are what we get after harvest and some primary processing such as oil-curing and drying. Rattan canes will then be sorted according to size. While the large-diameter rattan canes are often used for furniture and magazine racks, the small-diameter ones are generally suitable for producing such as baskets, trays, planters, and elements for homewares.

Depending on customers’ requirements, the peel (outer skin) of rattan canes can be either removed, scrubbed, or kept intact. That is why the price of each type differs.

How to differentiate between Rattan and Willow??Rattan and Willow are two different materials.Willow is found mostly on ...
08/05/2022

How to differentiate between Rattan and Willow??

Rattan and Willow are two different materials.

Willow is found mostly on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere (it doesn’t grow in Vietnam). Willow is a popular option for making homewares, especially baskets thanks to its superb strength, flexibility and durability.

As regards characteristics, willow features a more soft and flexible nature than rattan, which is easier to be bent and woven. Rattan needs to be steamed before being twisted and bent. Therefore, labor costs for making willow products are much lower.

The look of rattan and willow are quite similar, but you will see differences here. In terms of finish, rattan core strands are quite rough and matt; meanwhile, willow looks more smooth and glossy. It’s because rattan strands used for basketry are already split from rattan cores, so they don’t include shiny peels. In contrast, the whole willow branches are used for weaving, without being peeled.

New trend home decor 2022. Focus on the rattan items!Nature and Organic products are still part of the main trend in the...
08/04/2022

New trend home decor 2022. Focus on the rattan items!

Nature and Organic products are still part of the main trend in the coming year. We would like to share some ideas as below:

1/ Lighting is the most important aspect that will decide how everything else- from the wall to the floor. With the festivities around the corner, we should keep the areas shining spontaneously . Lighting can be placed on the ceiling, up the table, on the floor or outside the hall….we can hang them in the group two or three or even 10 pendant lights. When we group the pendant lights, we can choose the different designs and colors.

2/ Plant Stand is the popular product in the recent years when people love to create the green environment. When we stay home more and more, we have the idea to keep family time warmly. Home is about simplicity, comfort, promotes a peaceful lifestyle. Whether the plant stand staged next by the sofa or in the house corner, it brings the green feel to the owners.

The 2022’s trend is all about feeling. People like to touch the material, feel the environment and enjoy the life.

TECHNOOLOGY, RAW MATERIALS HOLDING BACK HANDICRAFT SECTORVietnam's handicraft exports grossed US$308 million per year, u...
07/30/2022

TECHNOOLOGY, RAW MATERIALS HOLDING BACK HANDICRAFT SECTOR

Vietnam's handicraft exports grossed US$308 million per year, up 13 percent from a year earlier, making its possible to obtain the years goal of $660 million, according to the Ministry of Trade (MoT).

However, handicrafts export potentials have yet to be fully tapped due to a dearth in available technology and lack of materials to support large-scale production.

Shortcomings

Experts said Vietnam lacks raw material zones serving the handicraft industry, although there was an available supply of naturally occurring materials like rattan, bamboo or clay.

He added these resources could be exhausted in the future due to insufficient fresh resources and cultivation projects.

The sector urged the government to set up a fund to support material cultivation.

According to some foreign importers, small-scale production, little contact with potential foreign customers and virtually no Internet access to e-commerce limits industry development.

Advantages

Unlike other sectors such as the apparel industry, which relies on imported materials, handicraft manufacturers could develop adequate supplies of local materials.

The sectors import materials make up only 3-5 percent of the value of a handicraft item.

According to economists statistics, if $1 million in added value was generated by handicraft makers, the garment sector would have to obtain revenue of $4.7 million to earn an equivalent value.

Additionally handicrafts exports are not subject to quantitative restrictions by importing countries.

MoT reported that Vietnamese handicraft shipments to the European market have grown incredibly recent years, accounting for one-tenth of EU imports behind China and Thailand.

The sector has also moved into new markets such as Africa and Southwest Asia with shipments there growing steadily into the easy-going markets.

Targets

The handicraft sector has set an ambitious plan to export $1.5 billion worth of handicraft products.

To obtain the target, MoT Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) in co-ordination with the International Trade Center has implemented a project o support trade promotion and export development with a greater focus on handicraft exports.

The project has assisted the sector work out a plan to develop raw materials and study latest processing technology.

Additionally local handicraft enterprises would be encouraged to market their products overseas and seek new potential importers as well.

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