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Caneworld, is the largest supplier of Lloyd loom furniture in Southern Africa. With the factory in Cape Town, they are ideally situated to supply Lloyd Loom furniture all over Africa.They also have to ability to manufacture custom designs, should you have your own.

In 1917, the American entrepreneur Marshall Burns Lloyd invented a method of twisting kraft paper around a steel wire. These paper-wrapped wires were then woven on a loom, thereby creating a fine, regular and solid weave that strongly resembled rattan. Marshall Burns chris¬tened this weave Lloyd Loom. Furniture made from Lloyd Loom was an enormous […]

With the ever larger range of goods available to the homemaker, decorator and designer there is less and less information being given to the decision maker on what is Cane, Rattan, Wicker, Banana Leaf, Water Hyacinth, Woven Plastics (PVC and HDPE) Abaca . LLoyd Loom, Malawi cane and Osier. Also how the quality of for […]