Arched Woven Mirror 700mm Wide in Black Stained Rattan

An arch rather than a circle, which reads as an opening in the wall and makes a small hallway feel deeper.

Every piece here is woven by hand, which is not a marketing line but a description of the only way it can be done. Rattan cannot be machine woven around a curve, so a chair back is somebody sitting with a former and a bundle of soaked cane for most of a day. The consequence is that no two pieces are identical, that the binding at the joints varies slightly, and that a weave that is perfectly regular is usually a sign of extruded plastic rather than good workmanship.

Specification

• Dimensions: 700mm across the frame, glass 434mm
• Seat or working height: not applicable
• Frame: bent rattan hoop with a plywood backing board
• Weave: hand woven surround, open lattice or close weave depending on the shape
• Finish: rattan stained through rather than painted on, so a scuff shows dark cane underneath instead of pale cane through black paint
• Load rating: hangs on two fixings, 8kg to 22kg depending on size
• Indoor or outdoor: Indoors, or a covered veranda or conservatory that stays dry. Natural rattan is not garden furniture and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a chair that will go grey, swell, split and unravel inside two seasons. If you want rattan outdoors you want woven polyethylene, which is a good product honestly described and something we do not sell.
• Assembly: arrives assembled with the hanging hardware fitted
• Weight: approximately 7.2 kilograms
• Glass: 4mm silvered float, not acrylic
• Hanging: D rings and cord fitted, two wall fixings supplied
• Fixings: for masonry, with a plasterboard set free on request
• Can be leaned rather than hung on the larger sizes
• Depth from the wall: 45mm

What you get

• One arched woven mirror 700mm wide
• D rings and cord, fitted
• Two wall fixings for masonry
• A care card and a cleaning cloth

Care

Dust it with a soft brush rather than a cloth, because a cloth skates over the weave and a brush gets into it. Two or three times a year wipe it over with a barely damp cloth and let it dry away from a radiator. Rattan does not like being dry any more than it likes being wet, so a piece that lives next to a radiator or in a room with the heating on all winter will benefit from a light mist of water once a month, which sounds like an old wives' tale and is the single most useful thing anyone will tell you about it. If a strand lifts, do not pull it. Damp it, press it back and hold it with masking tape overnight.

Where it works

The boho end of the range, which mostly means texture. A woven piece next to a plain one reads as considered and three woven pieces in a row read as a garden centre, so the rule we give people is one large woven piece per wall and as many small ones as you like. Works particularly well against a dark wall, where the light catches the weave and the piece stops disappearing.