COIR THE GOLDEN FIBRE OF KERALA
As a part of craft documentation course in the year 2018, Naja Mujeeb and I went to the land of coconuts to research on Coir, the golden fibre of Kerala. This document was made as the final deliverable of our research. We saw all stages of the different processes. The pages shown below would shed more light on our findings.
A chart showing different uses of a coconut tree in a Kerala household. This shows how important coir is to a Keralite from the document.
Page explaining the stages of preparing the coir fibre.
Page explaining the stages of preparing the coir yarn.
Page explaining the different types of coir yarn.
Pages explaining the preparation before weaving.
The image is of weavers of a coir handloom society we visited. When asked about their lives their reply was quoting famous malayalam writer, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, "lives strangled in coir rope". Unfortunately that was pretty much the situation we saw there.
Guided by- Swasti Singh Ghai