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

A mold for manufacturing a molded panel, by injection molding the mold comprising:

• a second mold member;
• and
• a bottom mold member;
• wherein each of the second mold member and the bottom mold member is formed with an array of grooves that complement each other and form together warp and weft shaped channels, allowing molten polymer material to flow into the warp shaped channels and undulating weft shaped channels, to give rise to desired wicker strands;
• and blade elements mutually projecting from edges of grooves of the array of grooves of the second mold member and the bottom mold member, the blade elements being configured so as to create fine gaps between at least several ones of the neighboring warp wicker strand 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.