how to make furniture and lamps from banana tree
 

...just wondering if any of you know where there might be a website showing how to
make furniture and lamps out of banana trees, please...I would like to make a lamp for wife from banana tree... :woohoonaner:

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That's a new one on me.. I'd like to see how someone does that too.. :^)

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The Top Ten things that can be made from Banana Leaves


Banana plant

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You going to make a lamp like this? :^)

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Abnshrek...actually I'm thinking of using 'stalk'[?] for the stand...cut down a couple trees, and love the colors [inside and out]...

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You realize that the banana plant is not actually a tree, and the "stalk" or pstem will rot pretty quickly... I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying maybe your initial idea is not quite practical.

I have heard of the dried pseudo stem being used to make fiber, maybe you could make some sort of rattan type furniture? Good luck, keep us posted with pics!

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You have got to be kidding. This is very labor intensive.

Banana products are made from the fiber of the banana plant not whole banana parts.
In the hands of experienced workers of banana products the work goes fairly quickly once the banana stems are crushed into fiber that is useful for such a project.
On youtube you can find videos that depict the process of crushing the banana stems by machine with two counter rotating rollers Banana Fibre Extraction - YouTube
There also a video depicting SE Asian women stripping banana plants with hand scrapers. I don't have the URL.

There are a number of videos depicting how the fibers are woven, braided or bundled to accommodate whatever is being made.

banana fibre craft making 1.AVI - YouTube.

Good luck.

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Banana plants are about 93% water. To make something from a whole stem you are going to have to dry the stem for a long time or know that the water is going to drain out of the stem onto your floor over time.