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Rayon Raffia garland,

handmade. DIY, decorate your gifts, home, theme events. Eco-friendly & biodegradable material...

Raffia is a fiber that can be woven like straw, tied like silk ribbons, or packed like Styrofoam pills. Milliners, crafters, and florists enjoy using the grass-like material for a variety of projects and gifts.

Crafters value raffia for being soft, durable, and easy to dye. It can take the place of cord, grass, leaves, fabric, ribbon, stuffing, floral string, and even paper. A wide variety of hats, mats, baskets, bags, and twine are made from raffia. Often, it is invaluable to outdoor projects because it doesn't shrink with moisture, yet is pliable enough to weave.

Several examples of common applications show how versatile and creative raffia can be in embellishing gifts, centerpieces, and seasonal projects. For instance, you can tie it around packages for an organic, rustic touch. A ribbon effect will look especially good if the gift wrap is handmade paper with pressed flowers, brown craft paper, or earth toned tissue. Since it comes naturally dyed in every color from sea green to deep burgundy, raffia also dresses up unwrapped presents like a book, bag of coffee, candles, or bottle of wine.

You can use raffia to braid together lengths of vegetables, such as garlic or onions, to create hanging autumn decorations in the kitchen. Wreaths for any time of the year can be trimmed with bows or sprays of this versatile fiber. Just as you would arrange peat moss on top of the soil of a potted plant, you could nestle fluffy raffia around the stems in a color that complements the blossoms.

When intertwined to form a loose fabric, raffia weaves into straw hats for gardening, squares for place mats, or a matte for the background of a framed photograph. Gift bags made from woven raffia allow you a subtle peak into the contents, whether they are wrapped chocolates or seashells. Shredded fiber can line Easter baskets or a tray of decorative gourds.