HELP!/bamboo furniture

[sallycato]

Over the past 6 months I have spent weeks at a time on the web, been to Florida to shop and have on 2 occasions ordered real old fashioned rustic bamboo bedroom furniture and both times the supplier after making me wait for 3 months at a time either went bank rupt or had their order stopped at customs.
I am so frustrated. I need a source for a bed side table, dressers, and a wardrobe/armoire.

I also am trying to build some things, so I need split bamboo, and binding twine and a book on how to do it would be nice.
somebody PLEASE help me. (light colored/natural bamboo tiki style or rustic)

thanx

Sally

[toisan]

Aloha Sally,

I'll send you some images of some furniture and if you are on the east cost I can give you a contact for nice rattan furniture from Ghana, that is if you can use a container load.

Paul

[Mark Mortimer]

HI Sally,
Well, you really don't seem to have had much luck in finding bamboo furniture.
Please have a look at my website, and if you like my stuff, perhaps we could design some pieces together for you.
I am in New Zealand, but freight shouldn't be a problem.
Carol Stangler's, The Craft and Art of bamboo is a good starting point, book wise. But there's nothing better than rolling your sleeves up and getting down to making something, anything, to get to grips with the material.
Cheers,
Mark Mortimer