To obtain a member like a thin bamboo strip with which a thin split bamboo, ditch reeds, a thin plastic pipe, etc., are replaced and has an advantage obtaining a high decorating effect, etc., and to provide a member like a rattan blind and an article having a decorating effect which has never existed before by using the member.

The member like the thin bamboo strip 1 is formed by a paper- twisted core 2 having a prescribed diameter and a prescribed hardness by twisting paper material and the surface of the core 2 is covered with a straightening tape 4 of a thin width and thin thickness by winding it in a direction opposite to the twisting direction of the core 2 via an adhesive 3.