Bamboo Furniture
Bamboo based industries have been identified as potential sunrise industries in India. Bamboo is used for making variety of decorative items. The eco-friendly products of bamboo are light in weight and have their own style and elegance. These products have a high life with minimum maintenance equivalent to wooden products. Strips of bamboo and various types of canes are extensively used to manufacture different utility and decorative items. Mats, lamp shades, trays, baskets are weaved and knitted by the skilled hands of the artisans. Bamboo furniture has fine grain and appears as unique furniture, which are very popular now. Jewellery, bags and handbags are the other popular items of this craft. Bamboo have a wide variety of products ranging from baskets, musical instruments to utility items like pen stand, mugs, hair clips, vases, containers. Household furnitures like chairs, sofa sets, moorahs (small stools) are also made out of cane and bamboo. There is tremendous demand of the products in domestic as well as in international market. Furniture and utility items of various designs are exported to the foreign countries as well. Nowadays, the products are also used for Interior Decoration of houses, hotels and offices etc.