Market Survey

The cane furniture market works roughly on three planes. 

• At the lowest level are those who help form the perception that cane furniture is cheap, meant only for outdoor purposes. They sell their products at anything between Rs 5000 to Rs 10,000 depending on whom they get as their customers, and how long the customers are ready to negotiate. They are generally sold at roadside shops in cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
• At the intermediate level, come the small furniture stores, craft exhibitions, government shops etc , who sell the products at anything between Rs 9,000 to Rs 20,000. 
• At the top of the pyramid are the fancy stores that employ designers, and come up with cane products looking as gorgeous as affluent Indians would want in their drawing rooms.Some examples of these are Cane Boutique , Bangalore , Idus store, Delhi, Cane lab, Pondicherry etc.Their furniture range from 20,000 to even as much as 70,000.

 Cane in the market 

• The cost of furnitures also depends a lot on the kind of cane that is being used to make a particular furniture. 
• In the market there are a lot of colloquial names that are used to describe the quality of the cane.
• There are three varities that are most commonly available.“Raidung” which is considered to be a very superior quality, then there is “Jati” which is of a little lower quality  and “muttu” which is of the lowermost quality and hence is used only for support members etc which is generally not visible . Also, muttu is generally not available in all sorts of thicknesses.

Raidung

Jati

Mutu

• Malay is of an extremely flexible sort. But unlike the above mentioned varieties these cannot be used to make structures/ framework.
• From a strand of rattan , the skin is peeled of , to be used as rattan weaving material.
• The remaining core also is used for weaving  the exterior of a furniture. The core is also called wicker sometimes.But wicker can also be made out of synthetic substances.
• The core can be of different thicknesses , ranging from 3mm to 6mm. They are available in round , oval and other innumerable shapes.

Malay

Round Core

Oval Core

The kind of texture that is given to finish a particular piece of furniture, the amount of material that is used also affects the rates.Some of the different kids of weaving that are done are as follows:--