Nowadays, with the need for “green living” and environmental protection, most of the items in daily life are often concerned with the source of raw materials used to make the product. The Seagrass plant is also one of the green raw materials thata is increasingly used in life. Let’s learn about the seagrass plant and its applications in real life with Safimex!
- Some information about the Lepironia plant
The Lepironia plant, also known as the Lepironia plant, has the scientific name Lepironia articulata, belonging to the genus Lepironia in the Cyperaceae family.
This plant is found in abundance in the Mekong Delta.
In addition, in Central Vietnam, mainly in Phong Dien district, Thua Thien Hue province, this Lepironia plant with its own characteristics of the Hue region is also found.
- Application of Lepironia plant in practical life
Products made from Lepironia plant have become traditional handicrafts, produced in long-standing traditional craft villages.
Products made from Seagrass are considered unique handicrafts, with very high practical applications. Most popular in the fashion, household goods and interior decoration industries.
2.1. In daily life
Since ancient times, people have known how to pick seagrass to dry, crush, dry, use it to roof houses or weave into items such as mats, cushions, baskets, hats, etc. to serve daily life.
Under the talented hands of artisans, seagrass becomes unique and highly applicable products such as mats, baskets, hats, handbags, shoes, trays, etc.
Daily life items made from seagrass often have the advantages of being light, durable, and reusable many times. These products are often hand-woven by farmers, simple, with a natural color, few designs and styles, mainly to serve people’s daily life.
2.2. In the household and interior decoration industry
The Lepironia plant can be woven into many items that can be used in the household and interior decoration industry such as pen holders, thermos bottles, fruit baskets, gift trays, trash cans, decorative lights, etc.
Mats, cushions or baskets woven from Lepironia plants are also products with high practical applications due to their moisture-proof properties in winter, coolness in summer and high durability, so they are very popular.
In particular, recently, with the problem of environmental pollution, plastic products are used too much in the fast food and beverage industry, the Lepironia plant has also taken advantage of the hollow stem characteristics to make Eco Grass straws to replace plastic straws.
Straws made from Lepironia plants are very interested and supported by people both domestically and internationally.
2.3. In the fashion industry
In addition to traditional products, today artisans have developed many more products from the Lepironia plant with more beautiful designs, high-end fashion, more suitable to market trends such as handbags, wallets, hats, high-end caps…
From the needs of consumers for modern, beautiful fashion products, craftsmen have developed other stages such as painting decorative motifs, combining with linen, leather and other accessories.
The Lepironia plant with its high practical application, under the hands of artisans, has created unique handicraft products, favored by many people not only for its aesthetics and high practical application but also for its environmental friendliness and safety for users.
All high-end products from the Lepironia plant of Safimex are not only environmentally friendly fashion products, meeting the needs of consumers, but they also carry core values for the social community.
Safimex’s wishes to preserve and promote local traditional craft villages, while helping farmers, especially women, to have more income and stabilize their lives in the long term.
If you are looking for Handicraft items made from Lepironia plant, like: hats, bags, drinking straws,… please feel free to contact us at info@safimex.com to get more details
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