Madiun, Indonesia (PressExposure) June 24, 2010 -- Indonesia Furniture Handicraft Wholesale Marketplace has become the destination of world's furniture handicraft destination. Indonesian is known as a country that has hundreds of cultures, each culture is having its own richness and characteristic, including when it comes to furniture. Wooden furniture is one of the popular furniture and if we are talking about wooden furniture, we cannot miss Jepara furniture handicraft. One thing that make Jepara furniture handicraft so rich is the detail of the sculpture. If we have ever seen a beautiful and detail painting, then in Jepara, we will find it in the form of wooden sculpture. The artistic furniture handicraft has been known from over centuries ago since Jepara become a monarchy area which was known with its port. When Jepara was a monarchy area, the king has a great appreciation to the sculpture and has a huge determination to develop this form of art. Long after the monarchy era, when Indonesian was occupied by the Dutch, women were not having a right to get an education or work, that time, an emancipation figure RA Kartini tried to develop women's skill through various ways and one of the ways was by opening a crafting school for women called Openbare Ambachtsschool. Since then, Jepara furniture handicraft is well developed, not only it becomes a local art, but also international standard art that is learnt on crafting schools. It can be seen when the Jepara furniture handicraft receive ISO 9000.
Each area in Indonesia is having its own furniture handicraft and we must learn deeper about it if we want to have the ability to differentiate one furniture handicraft from another. The characteristics of Jepara's sculpture are "daun pokok" a sculpture with unique leaves design, fruits and flowers sculpture, and its line patterns that make the sculpture look shinny. Jepara furniture handicraft becomes so interesting because of its detail and deep sculpture. On May 27, 2010, the Jepara's furniture handicraft even received a geographical certification. It indicated the quality of Jepara's furniture handicraft and soon it is very possible that Jepara soon becomes the center of world's furniture handicraft.
Jepara, this small city in the East Java of Indonesia has been known in Europe. The furniture handicraft exports have been reached Luxemburg, Belgium, Brussels, and many other Europe areas. Since we can use the internet for purchasing, to get the cheaper Jepara's furniture, we can directly buy to the local industry because it is so easy to find Indonesia Furniture Handicraft Wholesale Marketplace .