Sunday, 15 May 2005

Crafty Stuff

Hehehe - I like the way humans work by rubbing stuff together until they get a spark:
www.simarillion.com/Simarillion.htm

More Disintermediation
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A group of Bosnian refugee ladies who make socks, slippers and rugs in America. They survive on the income they make in knitting these things.
http://www.merrystahel.com/author/MyFavoriteCharities.htm

Yet another fibre alternative. Well, I could make a joke about fibbers, but it'd be nasty.
www.rugsandcrafts.com/yarn/banana_yarn.html
Banana Silk fibber yarn is made from the fibber of the banana tree. The fibber is refined, processed and skeined in Nepal by women. Banana trees are renewable, sustainable and produce environmentally friendly by-products. 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 fibbers remain. They are extracted, washed and crushed by hand to make it suitable for spinning into banana yarn.
To make our banana fibber yarn vibrant, brilliant, and saturated with colour, the yarn is hand-dyed. Women's groups in Nepal carefully make each yarn skein. They come in 100 and 200 gram skeins. 200 grams contain about 135 yards. We currently offer 9 different colours of banana fibber yarn.

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