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• n  leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc.
• n  fiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets
• n  feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes

• They sang his praises, danced at his orders, embroidered the exquisite raffia tapestries on the walls of his jungle palace, and when he sneezed they applauded.
• Now that jewelry makers are denied all use of tin, copper, aluminum, chrome, nickel and iridium, these pieces of raffia, felt, wood, clay and glass are the latest thingand .
• Ugandan village women's basket-weaving skills are applied to banana-leaf and raffia place mats, palm-leaf cutlery trays and millet-stem and raffia lampshades and coasters, and .

• raphia
• Raffia
• genus Raffia
• Raphia
• genus Raphia

News & Articles

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• Oakland Camp hosts annual artists’ camp
  Vessels made from various fabric and other materials such as seaweed, wire and raffia are the result of a fabric art class at Oakland Camp during the week of June 17. Photos by Laura Beaton Laura Beaton Staff Writer 6/27/2013     Summer camp is not just for kids, as nearly 75 adult artists proved during the week of June 17 at the Oakland Feather River Camp in Quincy.   Now in its 21st year, the ...
  June 27, 2013 - Plumas County News

Quotes

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• Isaiah Washington in Los Angeles Times
  As a child growing up in Houston, Isaiah Washington said, his first impressions of Africans were discomfiting TV images of "natives running around in raffia with bones in their noses . . . trying to put Tarzan in a pot."