Usefulness Bamboo

Bamboo is both decorative and useful. In many parts of the world it is food, fodder, the primary construction material and is used for making great variety of useful objects from kitchen tools, to paper to dinnerware. The Species Source List contains a listing of the bamboos that are commonly used for furniture, construction, musical instruments and many more things.

- Are used as a tool : :
Age-old after finding a place to eat chopsticks is a tool to help how to take food and fed it. Until now, the use of chopsticks in China mainland and indo china still daily habits.

The first form is still bamboo chopsticks and wooden sticks used to pick up food. After the 14th century, the period of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, chopsticks have become a popular item on the spoon. Bamboo chopsticks finally rarely used anymore, because people prefer wood.

In many parts of the world, particularly tropical climates where giant bamboos grow as forests, there is a tradition to using bamboos for constructing buildings and other structures such as the bridge shown above. Bamboo bridges are designed to hold up simple suspension load, either by making stack of split bamboo or tied whole culms of sufficiently bamboo together.

This traditional way is still used today, especially in villages that have each other to connected but separated by the river.


- example of the artistic materials
Bamboo construction makes use of the wide variety of building products now available that are made from one of the most versatile and sustainable building materials. For some examples of innovative building design using bamboo and ideas and inspiration on the use of the most versatile, strong and durable.



- bamboo crafts

Bamboo crafts have origin in past and characterize in some countries is cultural legacy. Bamboo crafts for their functional and aesthetic appeal this is an important source of livelihood for the people. They are also easy to work with and hardly require the use of specialized tools or equipment.

A variety of products and items such as furniture and partitions, table mats and floorings, lampshades etc are made. Panels, screens and partitions made out of splitted bamboo, pasted on plywood is another utilitarian item created here split bamboo is so thin and shiny that it looks like ivory.

Tree species that are considered normal with a touch of high art can be very expensive goods and artistic