Project Two Mile | Natural Fibre Bilum
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Handwoven bilum bag by Project Two Mile. Each bag is unique and beautifully hand-crafted by women from the squatter settlements of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Project Two Mile is an initiative to support the lives of marginalised women in PNG by providing a global platform for their artwork and crafts.
- This bilum bag is hand-woven from 100% natural fibre sourced from the bark of a special tree from the surrounding vegetation.
- Dyed using wild berries, fruits and roots.
- The process of making a natural fibre bilum is painstaking and takes many weeks.
- Shrub barks are beaten into loose stripes and are dried in the sun.
- The dried strips are then twisted by placing the fibres on the weaver's thigh and are rolled in a backward and forward motion with their hands to form long threads.
- The threads are then woven into bilums using a traditional weaving technique.
- Bilums are very versatile and expandable.
- Each bilum has a story and the patterns are a visual language and authentic to the women who weave them.
These bilums help to support the local weavers and their families to have a stable income.
