JIPPI JAPPA
The Jippi Jappa palm grows wild in the rainforest and often in abandoned fields of the southern Toledo District of Belize. The shoots and flowers are edible and the young palms can be used as a material to be woven into beautiful baskets.
The young palm frond is first stripped of its “bark” or covering and then very thin strips are peeled away just like a stalk of celery. Once the strips are thin enough to fit through the eye of a needle, the palm is boiled for 15 minutes and then dried in the sun for 2-3 days.
A bundle of fibers (maybe 6 to 8) are then held tightly together while another is twisted around the outside of the bundle. Once a few inches of a rope-like covered bundle are produced a tight coil will then be formed and thus the bottom of a basket begins to take shape.
The Jippi Jappa palm grows wild in the rainforest and often in abandoned fields of the southern Toledo District of Belize. The shoots and flowers are edible and the young palms can be used as a material to be woven into beautiful baskets.
The young palm frond is first stripped of its “bark” or covering and then very thin strips are peeled away just like a stalk of celery. Once the strips are thin enough to fit through the eye of a needle, the palm is boiled for 15 minutes and then dried in the sun for 2-3 days.
A bundle of fibers (maybe 6 to 8) are then held tightly together while another is twisted around the outside of the bundle. Once a few inches of a rope-like covered bundle are produced a tight coil will then be formed and thus the bottom of a basket begins to take shape.
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