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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