We at Rope crafts create rare handicrafts and home decors. Our medium of art is Bamboo, Jute, Cotton and coconut ropes. We process, dye and condition the rope material sourced from Tamilnadu and Kerala. We make beautiful handmade planters for indoors in different sizes, colours and patterns. In feature we would add more beautiful artifacts to the product list on our website. We also make Professional returning boomerangs.
What is Jute?
Jute has the tendency to transform itself into awe inspiring artifacts and handicrafts. Jute handicrafts made from jute are very appealing and are just perfect to adorn the favorite corners of your home, offices, restaurants, hotels, and so forth.
Jute is extracted from the fiber of jute tree that is obtained after prolonged soaking in water. This is a 100% natural and biodegradable fiber, keeping the environment green & clean. Apart from being eco friendly the jute crafts give natural and soothing look.
There are countless varieties of jute crafts that are being used for decoration purpose worldwide. Jute industry also provides employement to thousands of farmers, artisans and traders who are involved in making infinite varieties of jute crafts and artefacts. Jute crafts include rugs, carpets, footwear, wine bottle bags, carry bags, handbags, wall hangings, jewelry, baskets, coasters, lamp shades, decorative articles and showpieces.These jute crafts are available in all colors, giving wide choices to customers. High grade jute threads are used to make clothes and other items that find extensive demand in the national and international markets.
Jute is mostly grown in West Bengal, which is close to UP, Bihar and Orissa. These are the Indian states, where one can easily get cheap labor for manufacturing jute products. However, there are many brilliant craftsmen elsewhere too who are designing and developing jute artefacts since generations.Compared to other agro products, jute is much cheaper. But when compared with synthetic fibres, Jute is a bit costlier. However, one should not forget the fact that jute is 100% natural, eco-friendly, and bio-degradable.
What is coconut fibre?
The fibre extracted from the husk of the coconut known as coir has been the raw material for making yarns and ropes in southern India since ancient times. The word coir has derived from the Malayalam word kayar, which means the code. Coir yarns have been in use for so long due to its relative waterproof quality and resistance to damage by seawater.
Coir is the only material that is used to make coir yarns or coir ropes. A process called retting is used to extract the fibre from the husk. The ripe husks are kept under water along river banks or pools for 2-3 months to allow naturally occurring microbes to decompose the pith part of the husk. Nowadays, crushing machines are used to soften the husks prior to retting, so that decomposition time can be shortened. The retted husks are beaten by workers using wooden mallets to extract the fibers from the pith and the outer skin. The bristle fibres for making yarns are separated from shorter and weaker fibres (mattress fibres) through combing by hand or tumbling in a mechanically driven perforated drum.
The bristle fibres are twisted into strands that are spun by hand, hand-operated spinning wheels, or fully automated mechanical methods to make 2-ply yarns. In order to make ropes, the desired number of coir strands are attached to a wheel that is turned by hand or by mechanical means.
Coconut Coir, fiber can be converted into beautiful crafts items such as, toys and ornamental objects by tying and folding the fibers together. Facial structures added with a colored wool, stitched on the figure to create Animal figures, wall carpets, flowers, and other utility products etc.