Bamboo World
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Make a shakuhachi flute or an Indonesian xylophone; build beautiful furniture (complete with designs), or water toys; study overseas edible shoot or timber plantation technology; harvest and cure your own timber culms. It covers shoot preparation and cooking, recipes, making your own bamboo paper, building and architecture. Still accurately relevant, corrected, and with an update chapter, it's all there in extraordinary but simple detail, and beautifully illustrated! Printed as a quality hard cover for world distribution.
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The Book Includes
- Comparison of clumping (sympodial) and running (monopodial) bamboos.
- Plant description including its parts.
- Growth, flowering cycles & propagation.
- Growing conditions and procedures.
- Species selection advice for garden, landscaping, structural, furniture,
- Species descriptions, common names, origin, specific uses and edibility.
- Species lists of sympodial bamboos available in Australia,
- Indigenous Australian bamboo species.
- Harvesting and curing.
- Edible shoots for home consumption, and which ones you can eat.
- Plantations for edible shoots or timber, with species selection.
- Plantation establishment costs and management techniques.
- Building design principles & Building designs you can actually construct.
- Building joints and techniques, both traditional and modern.
- Furniture making including details of the tools and techniques.
- Furniture designs that you can actually make.
- Fence making and designs.
- Mobile water toys and how to make them.
- Screen making, Balinese and others.
- Chemical treatment and equipment.
- Pests and diseases.
- General technique including splitting, cutting holes, etc.
- Musical instrument making.
- Edible shoot cooking, including comprehensive recipes.
- Papermaking, and the gear you need.