Process for producing bamboo products
How to make high quality bamboo products? What is craftsmanship? Let us introduce the process for producing bamboo products.
Cutting down bamboo trees
Making bamboo products starts with making good bamboo trees. Cutting down 3- to 4-year old bamboo trees.
Bamboo tree mountain
Developed bamboo forest.
Removing bamboo oil
Boil bamboo with caustic soda and wipe off oil seeped out of bamboo.
Solar drying
Bamboo color will be turned into white after removing oil and solar drying.
Solar drying 2
Solar drying 3
Cutting bamboo
Selecting and cutting bamboo.
“ARAWARI”- rough cutting
Cut bamboo into half until it becomes very thin and make “Takehigo”, thin strips of bamboo.
“HABATORI”- make bamboo same width
Make thin strips of bamboo same width by using tools called “Kintori”
Stripping
After cutting bamboo roughly, cut and strip it thinly. Make thin strips of bamboo same width. These processes are called “Arasogi”, “Kowari” and “Usuhagi”.
Parts
Strip “Takehigo” by a knife.
Material processing
Plaiting from the bottom
Basically as making flower vases, start plaiting from the bottom. This circular plaiting method is called “Rinkoami”.
Plaiting
In order to plait sterically, start plaiting from the bottom to the top.
Making rim
Making rim of the bamboo products.
Parts
Finishing the rim
Finishing the rim according to the craftsman’s design.
Plaiting sterically
Plaiting depends on the size of containers.
