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We are offering our SPICE ISLAND WICKER furniture lines at discounts of 20% and more! This is a very popular manufacturer of Rattan and Wicker furniture. Blending rustic Rattan furniture in with your current furniture is a great way to add warmth and beautify any room of your home. Visit this amazing furniture here - https://www.americanrattan.com/spiceislandwicker.html After visiting be sure to call and discuss fabrics and other details with our consultants at 1-888-265-4695

The American Rattan Journey

The American Rattan Journey

Master Seargent (MSgt) Mark Mosher, a 21 year veteran of the U.S. Air Force had just started his retirement leave on September 1, 2001 and was in the process of starting his new imported furniture business. He didnt know it at the time but all of that planning was about to come to an abrupt halt when after just 11 days into his leave America was attacked by terrorists on that tragic day on 9-11-01. Immediately the Air Force cancelled MSgt Mosher’s retirement and he was ordered back to his base and back to active duty. Fortunately there were no further attacks on our homeland and 6 months later MSgt Mosher was honorably allowed to begin his retirement for a second time and this time it was permanent. Now he could focus on his new import furniture businesss in earnest and thats exactly what he’s been doing for the last 17 years! The company Mark originally built was named “Pacific Imports” and included retail sales of imported Rattan and Wicker furniture as well as Antiques and Rosewood furniture from China as well. Then in 2008 Mark re-organized the company as American Rattan and Wicker and the focus has been on the retail sales of indoor and outdoor Rattan and Wicker furniture ever since. Mark has maintained a simple and straightforward customer service philosophy all of these years - “provide the best possible products, at the lowest possible prices, and with the best customer service”. And working with his team of hardworking, highly trained and knowledgeable consultants he has delivered on that promise. Mark chose Rattan and Wicker furniture as a business because he loves the rustic and tropical look Rattan furniture creates in any room of any home, and he does all of the web design as well. This furniture can be mixed with your current furniture and brings so much warmth and beauty to any setting. In fact Mark loves this furniture so much that he added his new trademark “The Rattan Man” to his business in 2016. You will see “The Rattan Man” when you visit this amazing store online at https://www.americanrattan.com/ After visiting and finding collections and styles you like its a great idea to call us at 1-888-265-4695 to discuss fabrics, availability, and other details with our knowledgeable team of Rattan consultants.

Rattan Furniture Made in America

As shared from American Rattan by Mark Mosher "Rattan Man"®

Rattan and Wicker furniture is an original American craftsman tradition dating from early in the 19th century. In the 1840's Cyrus Wakefield started the first Rattan furniture company in South Reading, Massachusetts. Watch American craftsmen build Classic Rattan furniture here in the U.S.A at the Kentucky factory.

Wicker Furniture - An American Legacy

Shared from American Rattan by Mark Mosher  "Rattan Man"®

Wicker and Rattan furniture as a commercial industry was created in America and not in Asia as many assume. The American production of wicker furniture began in the 1840's. This occured after the Chinese opened a number of treaty ports to foreign trade. Clipper ships would leave China bound for America with a variety of goods. Raw cane rattan was used as dunnage to secure the cargo and prevent shifting. This raw cane would then be discarded and left at the docks on America's east coast. One day in 1844, a 33-year-old grocer by the name of Cyrus Wakefield, collected an armful of the discarded rattan that had been abandoned at Constitution Wharf in Boston. Wakefield took notice on how flexible the cane was and an idea struck him. Could the cane be wrapped to produce furniture? Wakefield was not a furniture maker by trade but he still bent the rattan to produce a chair. He saw the infinitie potential of the material and quit his grocer job to pursue the rattan and cane idea full time. Here is a photo of the Wakefield Rattan Factory in 1865.

To start his business Wakefield traded the raw rattan to basket makers and furniture manufacturers. The manufacturers used just the outer cane to weave chair seats and backs. In 1855, Wakefield and his wife left Boston and moved to South Reading, Massachusetts. There he established the Wakefield Rattan Company. He continued to sell the imported rattan throughout the United States and he continued to experiment with wicker furniture. Bending oak or hickory into flowing shapes, the frames were filled with ornate rattan patterns and wrapped with split cane.