Weaving Palm Fronds Roof

One way to learn palm frond weaving is to start with a simple project such as a palm frond fish.

Weaving palm fronds roof. Repeat this process with five more palm fronds making a woven sheet of palm fronds. Basket weaving with coconut palm fronds march 2011. So here s your step by step instruction for making a palm thatch roof. Snip two inch wide palm fronds to 11 inch lengths.

Apr 15 2019 explore marie elaine gottuso pelloni s board palm braiding on pinterest. Push the fronds together in the form to make the weaving tight. The reason is that they are too short. First they collect a whole bunch of nice coconut palm leaves which are all over the island.

See more ideas about palm sunday palm palm cross. Fold both fronds in half. Accessing the palm fronds for the thatch roof turned out to be one of the easiest things we ve had to do so far. There s a property nearby owned by a friend full of the right kinds of palms so we simply had to have a chat with the caretaker there and negotiate a fair price.

Instead you want to use cahune palm. Fold over the ends of each palm frond and tuck each one inside the weaving on the back of the mat. Normally we don t use palm leaves for our cabana roofs.