400g Cordeline Cordate Raffia

This orange-coloured raffia is a long vegetable fibre that is both flexible and resistant, perfect for weaving, braiding, and creating a multitude of decorative objects, vibrant fashion accessories, enhancing a floral arrangement, or more traditionally, tying a bouquet or training any type of plant. With its beautiful light and vivid colour, it complements numerous pastel or brighter shades. It comes in the form of a large 400g skein, a long and thick ball made up of folded fibres measuring approximately 1.1m (4ft) each.

Raffia is a 100% natural plant material that comes from Raphia farinifera, a palm tree in the Arecaceae family. It is native to the marshy areas of Madagascar and the eastern coasts of Africa. Its leaves or palm fronds, which can reach 20m (66ft) long and 3 to 4m (10 to 13ft) wide, are the largest in the plant kingdom. Raffia fibre is obtained from the upper surface of the young leaflets: they are dried and then torn into thin strips that are rolled into long skeins. Smooth and flexible, but highly tear-resistant, raffia fibre can be easily tied without breaking. Its qualities have made it widely used for a long time and worldwide as a tie in horticulture and crafts. In Africa, it is used to make a wide variety of objects such as mats, baskets, hats, wallets, shoes, bags, fishing nets, hammocks, and curtains.

This orange raffia enhances all types of foliage, from green to purple, as well as grey and yellow. Its long 1.1m (4ft) fibres can be cut with scissors or a cutter, or used as is, depending on the needs. Raffia is traditionally used to tie any type of plant to its support, to secure the long stems of a climbing plant, or in the orchard to support a fruit-laden branch, for example, as it holds firmly without damaging the most delicate stems. It can be used to protect a graft point, or to hold a splint on a broken branch. The brightly coloured raffia has won over craft enthusiasts who weave and assemble it to make hats, handbags, and carnival skirts, dress up pots and flower boxes, create hanging decorations, embellish lampshades or bottles, and personalise floral arrangements. This orange raffia will be perfect for decorating an invitation card, creating a bulletin board, or decorating a table with small bows. Alone or in combination with other colours, it can also be used as a tie for gift packaging.

Also available in natural version and in several other colours.

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