Rattan

Pretty much any thin, pliable material can be used to make wicker furniture, but many prefer those made with willow or rattan to plastic.

Rattan is a plant with which one can make furniture.

Researchers with the Instituto di Scienza e Technolgia dei Materiali Ceramici in Italy say the idea is to use certain types of wood (e.g. red oak, rattan) that closely resemble the structure of human bones.

It took Elwood an hour to find Mr. Gladwell, who sat in a big rattan chair at the edge of the sweet potato fields.

He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.

“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

[…]the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline[…]

Meanwhile Captain Colville rattaned Pearson very severely […]