Double Woven Headboard 1350mm Wide in Natural Rattan

A double headboard on its own, which is the cheapest way to change a bedroom and the piece most people should buy before they buy a bed.

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: 1410mm wide by 1200mm high by 60mm deep
• Seat or working height: top of the headboard sits 1200mm off the floor on a standard divan
• Frame: steam bent rattan hoop on a hardwood batten
• Weave: hand woven panel, close weave, tensioned onto the hoop
• Finish: natural rattan pole and peel, steam bent over a former and bound at every joint, finished in a clear matt lacquer that lets the cane keep its own colour
• Load rating: not load bearing, it is a headboard
• 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: bolts to a divan on standard struts, or hangs on two wall fixings
• Weight: approximately 15.8 kilograms
• Fits: a standard double divan or bed frame with strut fixings
• Struts: supplied, adjustable for divan height
• Wall hanging: an alternative set of fixings is in the box
• Height above the mattress: about 700mm on a standard divan
• Comes off the struts in two minutes for a move

What you get

• One woven headboard
• Two adjustable struts with bolts
• Wall hanging fixings as an alternative
• A care card and a piece of matching cane

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

This is the piece people mean by coastal: pale, woven and light enough to move with one hand. It sits happily against white or off white walls and against the greens and warm neutrals that have replaced grey in most houses. In a room with a lot of hard surfaces it does the job that a rug does, which is to take the edge off the echo.