Wicker
Wicker is the collective term commonly used by basket makers and in forestry for those types of willow whose long and flexible branches (rods) are suitable as wicker and binding material for the production of wickerwork such as baskets or wicker furniture. Basket willow , silver willow and purple willow are used for this purpose .
Wicker willows are cultivated outside of forests, not least in the form of so-called pollard willows . In Northern and Eastern Europe , wicker still represents an important branch of secondary forest use .
However, wicker should not be confused conceptually with rattan , even if the uses are similar.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhold Erlbeck, Ilse Haseder , Gerhard KF Stinglwagner : The great cosmos of forest and forest lexicon . DVD-ROM edition. United Soft Media Verlag, Munich, and Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8032-1770-7 .