Artificial panel, a method for manufacturing same and furniture articles therefrom

An injection molding mold for manufacturing a molded unitary furniture article integral with at least one molded panel mimicking natural wickerwork, the mold comprising:

• a top mold member;
• and
• a bottom mold member;
• wherein each of the top mold member and the bottom mold member having at least one section that is formed with an array of grooves that complement each other and form together warp shaped channels and undulating weft shaped channels, allowing molten polymer material to flow into the channels to give rise to desired wicker strands;
• and
• blade elements mutually projecting from edges of the grooves of the top mold member and the bottom mold member, the blade elements being configured so as to create fine gaps between at least several neighboring warp wicker strands and undulating weft wicker strands such that neighboring weft wicker strands are distanced from one another and the gaps form a continuous path extending between the undulating weft wicker strands, the path being parallel to the warp wicker strands;
• wherein in one or both of the second and bottom mold member, a height of a weft-shaped channel is vertically spaced from a height of a neighboring weft-shaped channel at a location intersecting a warp-shaped channel, and whereby undulating neighboring weft strands give rise to a vertical gap extending between a space adjacent each warp strand and zeroing at a locations where the neighboring weft strands tangentially intersect each other.