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ON-A-01 · Rattan · plant fibre · 1 of 1

This
one.

Not this model. This piece. It came out 4 mm wider than the drawing it was made from, and there is no other one like it.

Every piece on this site is one piece. The photograph is of that piece. We measure it at three points, print the difference, and when it sells it is gone.

See this piece — USD $128Where we can ship
ON-A-01, a hand-woven rattan basket, photographed straight on. This is the piece you would receive.MEASURED AT 22 °C, 50–60% RH, 48 H AFTER THE WEAVE+4mouth 280 → 284 mm0height220 → 220 mm+3base 175 → 178 mmDETAIL ×8 — 2 MM PER SIDEDASHED — THE DRAWING · SOLID — THIS PIECE · HATCHED — THE DIFFERENCE
ON-A-01Rattanplant fibre284 / 220 / 178 mm11 h at the weavecarries 6 kgweaver W-031 of 1USD $128

The same thing, as numbers

The drawing above is a picture of the difference. This is the difference. It is here because the important part of this site should not live only inside a graphic.

How we measure →
ON-A-01 — measured against the drawing, in millimetres
PointDrawingThis pieceDifference
Mouth diameter (widest point)280284+4 mm
Height (excluding handle)2202200
Base diameter175178+3 mm

What else is on this one

A 6 mm split runs down the second rim stake to the right of the closing point. A single strand end stands proud inside the base, roughly 30 mm from the centre.

The upper third is one shade warmer than the base — two cane bundles from the same delivery, cut on different days.

The two things this shop puts at the front

01

Every piece is
different, so we
print the difference

The usual way to sell hand-woven work is to photograph the best one and add a line at the bottom saying no two are alike. That line is doing the work of a disclaimer: you see one object and receive another.

We do it the other way round. Each piece is measured at three points with a digital calliper, forty-eight hours after the weaving is finished, at 22 °C and 50–60% relative humidity. The figures go on the page next to the photograph of that piece.

A piece 4 mm off the drawing costs the same as one that is dead on it. The deviation is the piece’s identity, not its grade.

Read the method →

02

Rattan, bamboo
and willow are
plant products

Which means a border agency can hold them, treat them at your expense, or destroy them. Australia does not accept untreated woven plant material. New Zealand runs a specific import health standard for bamboo, cane, willow and rattan. The United States treats woven baskets as wooden handicraft requiring quarantine treatment.

Most shops in this trade say nothing at all and let the parcel find out. So the first filter on our shelf is not colour and not price. It is where you are.

Pick a country and the pieces we will not send there go grey, with the reason written on the card and a processed-fibre alternative beside it. We never take them off the page — leaving something out is its own kind of misleading.

Country by country →

Two classes,
two sets of borders

Every piece on this site belongs to one of two classes, and the class decides where it can go. Nothing else on the page changes because of it — a plant-fibre piece is not priced higher for the paperwork it needs.

Plant fibre — 38 pieces
Rattan, bamboo, willow, rush, sedge, seagrass, water hyacinth. Raw or lightly worked plant material. Not sent to Australia or New Zealand. Sent to the EU, the UK, the US and Canada with a phytosanitary certificate.
Processed fibre — 34 pieces
Cotton cord, paper cord, recycled fibre cord. Spun, pulped or respun, so no plant structure survives. These go everywhere we ship.

Your choice stays in this browser session and travels with an order so we can ship it. It is not written into a profile and is not used to train a recommendation.

Every one of the six shapes has processed-fibre pieces in it, so no destination sees a whole category go dark.

The shelf

Which one,
not which model

Showing all 72 pieces. Pick a destination and we will mark the ones we cannot send there — we grey them out rather than hide them.

All 72 pieces →

Dashed border and a stock number means a restocked care item, not a one-of-one piece.

You are looking at
the actual object

Not a render, not a stand-in, not the best one out of forty. The flaws stay in the photographs and are named in the text — where the strand broke, where the joint is, where the burr lifts.

What we will not retouch →

Four claims we
will not make

Hong Kong’s Trade Descriptions Ordinance is criminal law, enforced by Customs. Loose words about hand work, about fibre that outlasts everything, or about what a border will do are not marketing here. Every one of these four is on a list the copy is checked against, and the site does not build if one of them appears in it.

A part-finished hand-woven rattan basket with the working strands still loose.

The claim that it is all hand work

Seven steps, each one named

Preparing the fibre, weaving, finishing the rim, dye, surface, hardware, base — we say which of those was hand work on each piece. On most pieces the fibre is machine-split. We say so.

Read it →
Dark mould spotting on the surface of a natural woven fibre kept in damp conditions.

The claim that it resists mould

Above 75% humidity it grows mould

Plant fibre cracks in dry air, deforms under load, darkens in sunlight, grows mould in damp, and can be bored by insects. All six are on the page with what to do about each.

Read it →
Raw split rattan cane beside spun cotton rope, showing how much processing each has had.

The claim that it goes anywhere

Not to Australia, not to New Zealand

For plant-fibre pieces. And we cannot promise any border will release a parcel — that decision belongs to that agency, and any charge it raises is billed to you.

Read it →
A broken strand in a woven rattan wall, the two cut ends spliced and tucked, not retouched.

The line about small differences being normal

+4 mm at the mouth, 0 at the height

Three measured points per piece, plus where the weave starts, how the colour runs, and the flaw you can see in the photograph. The flaw field is never allowed to be empty.

Read it →

The one line that is not one of one

Care and repair

Wax, repair cord, a humidity card, curved scissors. These are consumables, so they are made in batches, carry a stock figure, and can be bought again. They are drawn with a dashed border on the shelf so you can tell at a glance that they are not pieces.

All 8 care items →
A pale neutral wax being worked into a woven natural fibre surface with a cloth pad, the treated half visibly deeper in tone.

Read before you buy

Where we can send plant fibre

Country by country: what we send, what we do not, what paperwork travels with it, and what your own border agency may still do.

How we measure a piece

The instrument, the conditions, the three points, and why a piece further off the drawing does not cost less.

Which steps are hand work

Seven steps per piece, each marked hand or machine. No claim we cannot show you.

What the fibre does over time

Cracking, deforming, darkening, mould, insects, burrs — six things that will happen and what to do about each.

Delivery, duties and taxes

How long, how much, and who pays the import charges. Hong Kong charges no sales tax on this sale.

Returns and cancellation

Thirty days as our promise, plus the statutory right you may have where you live, and you get whichever is better.

Terms of sale and use

Who you are buying from, on what conditions, and what the Sale of Goods Ordinance gives you that we cannot take away.

Privacy and your data

What we collect, why, who it goes to, and how to see or correct it.