The banana is used for handicraft at Chira Valley
While you taste the fruit, he makes those wonders with his hands. Photographs provided by Antony Medina , distributed by FACTORTIERRA. SALITRAL (Sullana), Peru – In general, we believe the banana process finishes when we consume it as fruit or preparation – a shake or an ice-cream, for example. However, the fiber forming its trunk can have more lives than a cat. What we believe it’s the trunk of a banana plant, it’s actually layers of leaves surrounding the real trunk, once the plant goes growing up, they go displaying. The fiber comes out from there, whether the layer is green or dry. The fiber can be used in sheets or threads, even. Its products are many – from utilitarian objects to clothes, passing through handicraft. In fact, if the banana thread is mercerized, it comes out a cloth with a texture quite similar to denim, and if the fiber is thinner, the texture is similar to silk. In both cases, the mercerized thread is hard to brea...