All about BEAUTY
Your Lap of Luxury Lap Desk will include a ½” layered bamboo surface
and a one-of-a-kind Malaysian Batik pillow cover.
Bamboo Small Bottom
Bamboo Top
Bamboo:
- The natural fibers in the bamboo panels are gorgeous from the top, bottom and sides. I use one of three different types of bamboo panels: one has narrow, caramel colored slats, the other two are blond with either wide or narrow slats. The one you receive will depend on the bamboo that I have in stock at the time of your order. Inquire if you have a preference.
- The bamboo panels are NAUF (no-added-urea-formaldehyde adhesive) certified.
- The desks are approximately 5 pounds (large) and 3 pounds (small). Because there are three layers of bamboo and no filler, this lap desk is heavier than the maple veneered lap desks on the other pages. Once its on your lap however, the weight is comforting.
- At this time bamboo “wood” is more costly to produce than the veneered laminate from which my other desks are made. Hopefully you will agree that its unique beauty is worth the extra cost.
- Your purchase of a bamboo lap desk helps support sustainably produced products. The bamboo plant is considered rapidly renewable because when harvested sustainably the plant re-grows from the same root stalk, maturing in just a few years. By comparison, oak and maple trees take decades to grow, are incapable of re-growing from the same plant, and can be harvested only once.
Bamboo and Batiks Bottom
Bamboo and Batiks Top
Batiks:
- Each piece of cotton fabric is an original batik artwork made by rural villagers in Malaysia.
- Batiking is done by stamping cotton with an original, intricate design using a metal grid composed of interlocking copper strips. The cloth is then wax stamped, dyed, and painted many times over. There are numerous sub-processes as well including preparing the cloth, mixing the dyes, boiling the cloth to remove the wax and washing it before hanging to dry.
- The batiks are purchased through Bold Over Batiks, a company created hand in hand with the Malaysian artisans and which is keeping an otherwise dying art alive.
- You can be part of this effort by purchasing a Bamboo and Batik lap desk.
