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Cane and Bamboo-Allahabad

The Craft of Cane and Bamboo Furniture Making

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Prof. Bibhudutta Baral, J. Antony William and Anushree Kumar

Tools and Raw Materials

Raw materials: In Allahabad, Furniture is made using bamboo as it is flexible.

Bamboo - The natural eco-friendly material is procured from Kolkata as it is the major producer of bamboo in the eastern region of India.

Chadi - thin cane is bought from Gorakhpur.

Mota Cane - thicker cane is from Assam.

Patri - is the processed cane skin which is used for binding.

Gola - is the thin processed cane used to round/bind the bamboo frame. This is imported from Malaysia.

List of tools:

• Hatoda: Hammer is used during furniture making to pierce the nails.

• Cutter: Its used to cut the thin cane.

• Jamura: Its the tool used to pull the cane.

• Mungri: A wooden tool used to bend and shape the bamboo.

• Chaaku: Knife used to scrap the burned bamboo skin to make the texture smooth.

• Talwar: Another type of knife used to smoothen and beautify the bamboo texture.

• Kerosene Lamp: Its used to heat the bamboo.

• Tape: Its made out of bamboo split is used for measurement during furniture making process.

• Hacksaw: Its used to cut the bamboo.

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