5PCS Natural Raffia Ribbon - Raffia Yarn for Gift Wrapping & Crafts

Wow! I love this raffia! I cut open the compressed plastic & pulled out one bundle & smelled it! It smelled so fresh! I gently started to open the bundle up so it looked more like an oval, then I read that it’s best to let it rest for 24 hours or so before using it. Not a problem as I’m going to use it to make pine needle baskets & the raffia will be used to sew the coils of needles together. The natural color is why I didn’t want to use regular embroidery thread, I wanted it to be made with all natural materials. The versatility is varied because I’ll probably have to split the wider strands to about thick thread width. The sewing pattern I want to use, splits the raffia even further in the design. It will be easy to split it during assembly of the basket. This is strong stuff & it looks so good - natural color & smells great too! (If you like the raffia smell!) The smoothness of the strands will make the sewing that much easier. For my unusual purpose, this raffia will be excellent! I know many others use it to tie up packages & for crafts, so I will work for them also. I don’t see any small pieces as shown in others reviews & none fell out when I was gently loosening the fibers, so I’m good to go ahead with my pine needle baskets. I’ve had my pine needles for several years, 2 different kinds in fact! My dad collected some very long ones when he heard what I wanted to make so I don’t know if I’ll combine the 2 colors in one basket or make a separate basket of each kind. I’m excited to get started! so it’s just a matter of wetting them

Exactly what you want from natural raffia. Comes in nice neat organized bundles which makes them easy to work with, relatively speaking. As you pull out strands it wants to wad up but that's to be expected. At least it's just that bundle and the rest are still neat and tidy.

Just as described worked great for my project. Came when it was supposed to.

Decent quantity for the price. The raffia is folded and vacuum packed which creates a sudden kink or elbow in it. Lots of short pieces ( <8”) also in the package. I dyed some of it using Rit and that worked well. The hot water softened it enough to get most of the kinks out.

Very clean and easy to use because of the packaging.

Good presentation and practical.

This says natural grass. It is plastic. I bought it to use for tamales. Once you steam it, it looks like pieces of plastic grocery bags. This isn't safe for food. I was very disappointed.

Nice product would buy again.

Ok price but pieces are quite short, require lots of joins/adding in when weaving. Depending on what you’re using it for it could be more appropriate for your project than mine. Comes vacuum sealed and looks very small but puffs up reasonably once opened. It’s budget quality.

Did what I needed it to but was a small amount for trying to cover in a laydown goose blind haha but good quality atleast 👌

Use for bonsai and its was perfect and long enough. Will have for long time well packed.

It arrived in tight little bundles which were easy to pull apart to use the strands. I am making a raffia wreath and the quality of this product is perfect for my project. The strands were long and thick enough to fill in my wreath easily. Would highly recommend.

Happy with this purchase.