Rattan is fabricated into furniture using rattan poles or by weaving thinner strips of rattan ... Rattan is not the same as bamboo, which is a hollow type of grass, but they are both renewable ...

Some persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Taytay District Jail are finding new purpose behind bars — through rattan basket weaving. For Nick, 65 (not his real name), the activity helps take his ...