RAFFIA PILLOW CASES

I just live a walking distance to my workplace and I use to walk everyday going to school, as well as going home. But today I've seen skillful craftsmen where I used to pass by everyday. They were working for a job out product where you can work inside and outside the house during free time for an extra income.

I was fascinated by it which urge my curiosity to ask what they were doing. The woman was weaving the product into a pillow case while the man was fixing the strand fibers. So,I asked him what kind of product they were using and he said it is raffia. Raffia is from a raffia palm tree which is quite strange palm characterised by multiple stems 2-9 meters tall and vertically covered with the remains of the leafbases speckled with long dark fibers which was originated in madagascar and eastern coast of Africa. Its leaves are accustomed for the production of raffia, for example is the pillow case that they made.

After the man fixes the strands of raffia, he cut it into a desired legnth and tied it with strings in the middle. These are the photos after the man did it.

Then the woman flattened the tied raffia using hammer making it like a flat circle.

And then, she cut some portion of it to have the desired circumference of a circle shaping like a ball intended for the decorations of the edges of the pillow case.

This is the result of what she did.

After weaving, the woman embroidered her finished product which are all created by raffia carefully made by hand of the skilled craftsmen.

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