Weweldeniya

Buying  Cane Crafts

On the road to Kandy from Colombo is a small township with a line of boutiques selling cane and rattan furniture to the local and foreign passersby.Known as Wewaldeniya for its use of Wewal or cane for manufacturing household containers to furniture and ornaments, the village is a heaven of useful utensils and tidbits for a home.  May it be a cane garden chair set, a flower vase, kitchen baskets, a picnic basket or a pouch swing; weweldeniya has the product in your mind intricately and carefully woven and produced in rattan and cane. 

The boutiques also display traditionally woven and colored mats, coir and ekel based products and pottery of fine quality made according to an age old tradition.  Created by traditional industrialists from the cane brought from Manampitiya, Bibile and Trincomalee or imported from Malaysia the prices of the products had increased during the last few years due to the scarcity of the raw materials and the shift of market from small scale manufacturers to large scale producers.