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  Banana Silk Yarn 200gram-135yds Skein
  Banana Silk Fiber Yarn
Banana Silk Yarn
 
Fruits of wild-type bananas have numerous large, hard seeds.

Our Price: $10.95

Location Code: 200M12


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Product Code: 470402

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This beautiful yarn is made from 100% recycled banana silk handspun by women in Nepal.  The vibrant colors are hand dyed in Nepal.  These fabulous bulky weight yarns can be used to make anything from bags, hats, or shawls.  You can use this yarn in place of Sari Silk for your patterns as it works up about the same and is a fairly heavy yarn. These are 200 gram skeins and approximately 135 yards.  The process of making banana silk is explained below.

Banana Silk fiber yarn is made from the fiber of the banana tree. The fiber is refined, processed and skeined in Nepal by women.This beautiful yarn comes from a renewable, sustainable and environmentally-friendly source. It is very soft and has brilliant colors.

Only the decaying outer layers of the trees (aged bark) are harvested and soaked under water to quicken the natural process. When all of the chlorophyll structures are dissolved, the cellulose fibers remain. They are extruded into pulb and to make it suitable for spinning into yarn.

To make our banana fiber yarn vibrant, brilliant, and saturated with color, the yarn is hand-dyed. Women's groups in Nepal and carefully made each yarn skein.



Click Here for a fabulous purse pattern that can be made substituting Sari Silk for Banana Silk yarn.
 
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Image:Luxor, Banana Island, Banana Tree, Egypt, Oct 2004.jpg


Average Customer Review: Based on 1 Reviews. Write a review.

  1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 
bananna silk yarn December 7, 2008
Reviewer: Arliss Gorman from Midland, MI United States  
I found this yarn very difficult to work with.
It has many weak spots,breaks easily and is very poorly spun into yarn.Also there are many knots throughout. Too many,too close together to cut out and start over.some as close as 15 inches and others far enough apart that you think you have found them all. NOT
Plus when I washed in cold water the dye
ran like crazy. I used the green. Maybe other colors are better. Dry cleaning might  work out OK.I would rate this a
zero.

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