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Project Aim
CRAFT RESEARCH & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Support Cultural Heritage: Focus on reviving and sustaining dying crafts, ensuring their relevance in the modern world.
Market-Driven Trends: Current design trends to make the products appealing to modern consumers.
Simplicity for Ease of Making: Develop designs with minimal complexity to align with the skills of artisans
Cost-Effective Production: Reduce production time and material costs, increasing profitability for artisans.
Bamboo
Bamboo is a renewable aid and grows in tropical and sub-tropical places around the world.
Cane
Cane is a woody grass with a solid centre and a rough surface.
Properties:
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It is well known for its incredible Flexibility
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Some of its other properties includes its Fibrous structure , its Strength, it’s Elasticity, it’s Durability and its Robust nature.
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Apart from making handicrafts, it is also utilised to reinforce roads and bridges, pharmaceuticals and builds homes and schools .
Properties:
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It is Flexible and Durable
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Cane is widely used all around India to make exquisite furniture’s.
Common Tools
LPG gas stove
To heat up the cane for easy bending
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Dinabandhu
To bend the thicker Assam cane.
Use
Local name
Wooden bar bender
Nut cutter
To cut the whole cane into pieces
Guakati
Bills hook
To cut and peel the cane
Katuri
Tool name (English)
Knife
To peel the burnt part of the cane
Churi
Hammer
To drive nail into the cane
Hatudi
Nails
Fix two cane pieces together
Kanta
Pruner
To cut the uneven end of cane
Beta cutter
Dinabandhu
Katuri
Churi
Guakati
LPG Gas stove
Process Observed 1
STEP 1
Removal of discoloration and nodes using Churi
STEP 2
LPG burner is used to heat and then bend the cane into the desired shape.
STEP 3
Dinabandhu is used to bend the thick cane after heating
STEP 4
Burnt part is then scraped out using churi (small knife)
STEP 5
nails are fixed while making the frame of desired product
STEP 6
whole frame is constructed and tied with cane rope to give more strength to it.
STEP 7
The small details are fixated to the frame using nails and cane rope.
STEP 8
Cane furniture is ready.
For finishing touchwood is applied.
Process Observed 2
STEP 1
First cane cut into pieces of
desired length using
gua kati ( nut cutter).
STEP 2
Split into two parts
using a flat bill hook (kati).
STEP 3
Cut into thin
strips using churi(knief) or kati (flat bills hook)
STEP 4
Interlinking the cane
strips in form of checkered patterns to form base (chaki)
STEP 5
Khilli ( bamboo sticks ) is added to give proper structure and support to base.
STEP 6
Using weaving technique base is made
using bindhuni (needle puncher)and use a small knife to cut the extra ends
Process Observed 3
STEP 1
Divided into two parts
using bill hook(katuri).
STEP 2
Sliced and
cut into thin strips using flat bill hook(kati).
STEP 3
Use of the churi
(knife) to have smooth the sharp edgs of bamboo.
STEP 4
Strips laid one upon another in a radial manner.
STEP 1
Thinner strips is weaved
between the flat strips for base.
STEP 2
Weaved together
with thin bamboo strips using wicker
or twining techniques for structure.
Image Gallery
Showcases my fieldwork in the villages of Banapur, Biribadi, Soran and Goradhajhari, where Bamboo & Cane crafter practice their traditional craft.
Documentation
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Lumious
Bamboo & Cane Craft artistry
Product Development
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