Rattan Education and Training

Focus your rattan education and training to further your career
By Tara McClendon, Freelance Writer/Editor Tara McClendon Rattan is a vine mainly grown in Southeast Asia, though it does grow in other places as well. Rattan manufacturers use it to make furniture and fabric. Because of its strength, contractors use it in the construction of suspension bridges.

Rattan education and training can help you learn the best ways to work with rattan. The type of education you seek may depend on the area of expertise you want to learn. When it comes to rattan, you can focus your education choices on a variety of opportunities, including the following options:

1. Understand the basics of working with rattan.

2. Gain education and training in textile production and processes to become a rattan supplier for fabric.

3. Focus your education on training for furniture design with rattan or wicker.

Get education for rattan online

To learn the basics of rattan, you can utilize online resources. In some cases, rattan suppliers provide information as a way to prove their quality. Other sources include news articles on textiles and technology or educational papers provided by universities or colleges. Some organizations that work with rattan also provide educational information.
Try:  UC Berkeley provides an in-depth article that covers basic facts about rattan. It includes information on how rattan farmers grow and process the product. PT Rattanland Furniture provides educational information on rattan, including cultivation. It doesn't offer rattan wholesale, but it does offer special prices and overstock sales on some of its products.

Learn how to be a rattan manufacturer for fabrics

Most textile degrees will prepare you for things like buying rattan, learning how to weave the rattan and discovering new technologies to help you process the fabric while reducing expenses. Whether or not the program covers rattan will depend on the college or university offering the degree. If you have any questions, you should contact a representative for the program. Another way to gain textile education is to attend conferences and events specific to rattan textiles.
Try:  Education-Portal.com offers a description of an associates degree in textile production. With this degree, you learn how to work with and design textiles, including rattan. The Institute of Textile Technology at North Carolina State University provides an overview of its fellows program and provides information on textile resources that offer more information on a degree in this field. The Textile Institute has members in over 80 countries. It hosts conferences and events, some of which focus on new textiles like rattan.

Find opportunities to work with rattan producers to make furniture

When it comes to making furniture with rattan, you might want to consider a formal education in graphic arts that specialize in furniture design. In some cases, suppliers may offer courses to help you learn to use their products to create your vision. While many of these won't focus specifically on rattan, you can apply the information and skills you learn to working with rattan.
Try:  The New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association offers a program through which you can work with a master to design and build furniture. It also has other educational programs like its studio-based programs. Fine Furniture Maker is a UK-based supplier of fine furniture. It offers courses on woodworking and furniture making.