Plant Parts and associated Crafts

Roots

Khus or ramacham in Malayalam is the aromatic root of a densely tufted grass.

• This grass has a thick root system which helps in checking soil erosion and is an excellent stabilising hedge for stream banks, terraces, and rice paddies
• It grows wild in many states but is cultivated in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh
• It has fragrance and cooling properties
• The roots are used for creating mats, beds, and pads for desert coolers
• The dried stems are used for making brooms, fans, hats, and footwear, and for thatching

Stems

Stems of various grasses, bamboo, Jute, Palm tree and cane are processed to extract fibres.

• In Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Korai or Kora is a sedge or wetland plant

• The stems are shear near the foothold of the factory, spliced vertically, and dehydrated in the sunlight. On drying, the spliced stems coil into a sophisticated and tubular shape
•  A variety of mats with stripes, geometrical matters, born and dyed colours are laced 

The roasted brown-coloured mats are popularly referred to as nethermost tops.  

• Finely spliced madur is wreathed into mats 
• The needlewomen ingeniously apply two subtly discerned born tone splits or widely dyed corridors of the rifts to separate the borderlines with dyed tone

• In Assam and Tripura, Shital pati or‘ aloof mats are formed by the platting fashion  
• The mat has a sophisticated and luminous face

• The murta factory is gathered when leafy, bathed in pop water and parched
• It’s also steamed and splintered into slips for platting the mat

• In Haryana, Strips obtained from the win splint are a habit to make coiled baskets and holders. A bunch of moonj lawn fibres form the core material of the coil and a win splint strip is wound over the coil and binds successive rows of coils in situ 
•  Furniture particulars like the mooda or droppings are good examples made entirely from natural fibres like sarkanda and moonj
• Sarkanda may be a wild lawn plant in Haryana and its long stems are employed in making the indigenous mooda 

• Bamboo:  it’s an enormous tree-suchlike lawn which substantially grows wild within the tropical and tropical regions of the earth. It’s a natural resource and is planted abundantly in India

• These altitudinous meadows have straight, woody, and spherical stems, which have bumps
• Some stems are concave, and some are solid
• There are 136 categories of bamboo in India
• It’s an extensively used material that’s hardy, durable, provident, and biodegradable 
• It’s used whole as well as split in different extents to make a large range of products
• It has long fibres running along its length and the bond between the fibres is fairly weak while the fibres themselves are extremely strong

• Jute: Jute: A stem or bast fibre, is developed in West Bengal

• Jute fabric is flaky and deteriorates with liability to Sun and rainfall
• It’s popularised as an affordable packaging raw material

• Palm Tree: Baskets, holders, mats, and cabinetwork are made with the leaves and stem

• Plants in the littoral regions of India and some kinds like the date win grow in semi-arid regions
• Coconut, areca- nut, and date win trees have feather-suchlike leaves, the palmyra or toddy win has addict-suchlike leaves
• The trunk is used in original armature and for making rafts
• The leaves are used whole as cover thatch and barrier panels while strips are wreathed into baskets, winnowing servers and for packaging fish and jaggery. 
• Palm canvas and win fruit are comestible products

• Cane: Canes are long narrow stems of climbing shops which belong to the win family. India has around 30 types of clubs developing in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, the Andamans, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu

• Its parcels of being tough, adjustable, and elastic have made the whole club suitable for use in cabinetwork, headdresses, walking sticks, fishing rods and baskets
• In Arunachal Pradesh, suspension bridges are made of cane

Fruit:  

Coconut plant has multiple uses of its stem, fronds, fruit, and nut. Coconut is the fruit.

• Coir fibre uprooted from the external cocoon of green coconuts. It is spun into yarn and ropes while the fibre of brown coconut is used as stuffing in mattresses 
• Coconut husks are retted or steeped in water to loosen them from the tough husks 
• White coir extracted from the green husk can withstand salt corrosion
• It is used in shipbuilding and for making floor coverings

Leaf:

Screw pine is a equatorial factory known for its soil conservancy parcels. It’s cropped as a boundary wall in Kerala. It’s accessible in cornucopia and provides a source of income to pastoral women who make strips from the leaves to weave mats.  

• The leaves are similarly applied as roof thatches
• Strips are amalgamated transversely to weave mats and large shells that are also cut and darned to make holders, bags, and headdresses 
• There are manly and womanish species of the screw pine 

• Female: It produces a finer quality of fibre used in weaving traditional mats called meetha pai which are soft and cool to sleep on
• Male: It produces coarser fibre

• Thazava in Kollam quarter of Kerala, binary caste mats are fabricated which are edged with a graphic coloured strip applied to suture the layers together 
• The white mat is burnished with a stone that gives it polish