Thu, May 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM UTC The Straw Market Tote is on sale for only $44. It comes in three lovely colors: cape blue, black, and olive. There’s an additional tobacco color on sale for 50% ...

The Banatex-EA (Banana Textiles in East Africa) project at Busitema University, eastern Uganda, has created spinnable banana fibre that can be used in textile production, presenting an alternative to ...

The team, led by textile engineering lecturer Edwin Kamalha, has figured out how to turn banana stems—usually discarded after harvest—into soft, spinnable fiber that can be used to make cloth ...

And for many women, plantain fiber hair extensions offer both. Plantain’s new role in beauty Plantain or banana fiber hair extensions are made from the fibers extracted from the stems of these plants, ...