What is banana fiber yarn?
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. They come in 200 gram skeins. 200 grams contain about 135 yards [[Back To Top]] • What is recycled silk yarn? Recycled silk yarn is the by-product of colorful saris that women wear in South Asia. It is the loose ends of saris collected from industrial mills in India that is hand spun into yar
