Coconut Leaf Mat Weaving

Coconut leaf mat weaving. Making mat with palm tree leaves is very easy and simple. Mat weaving uses vertical warp weavers and horizontal weft strips. Please go through the instructable on how to weave this small table mat using coconut leaves. Weaving coconut palm brings me a lot of splendid happiness.

They are used to cover floors walls and ceilings and as ceremonial exchange items. You can use this mat on your dining table also to keep bowls with food itemsplease go t. Please see the first picture here. Then i soaked the freshly harvested coconut fronds in water for about 24 hours.

You can use this mat on your dining table also to keep bowls with food items. Something to aspire to next year. The ladies wear them for dancing and ceremony and he also said they make the. Initially i tried weaving the hat from freshly harvested coconut fronds but the leaf sticks broke in many places unsuitable to continue the crown.

Here are some long promised coconut palm weaving processes first the dilly bag and next the fruit bowl or calabash the beautiful serpent like weave on the headband was taught after my teacher had been with some weavers from vanuatu. After weaving a beautiful rim i had to discard the piece due to broken sticks. The coconut leaves can be woven to make fish traps baskets bags hats table mats and sleeping mats rice pouches or fans as well as decorative items shaped like latte stones turtles. The beautiful table mat you see here is woven from coconut leaves.

Note the coconut palm mat which it s all modelled on not my work. See if you can work that one out. We can use this kind of small mats for sitting while performing puja or or while taking meals you c. This is a small 10 inches x 10 inches mat very flexible and can be used for a very long time.

Throughout history people made coconut leaf mats for sleeping. I would love to go there one day for weaving here you can see the creation of a few days. This is a small 10 inches x 10 inches mat very flexible and can be used for a very long time. The repetitive pattern of mats is an ideal place to begin crafting these leaves.