Weaving Palm Fronds Roof

So here s your step by step instruction for making a palm thatch roof.

Weaving palm fronds roof.

Fold over the ends of each palm frond and tuck each one inside the weaving on the back of the mat. See more ideas about palm sunday palm palm cross. Instead you want to use cahune palm. Basket weaving with coconut palm fronds march 2011.

Accessing the palm fronds for the thatch roof turned out to be one of the easiest things we ve had to do so far. Push the fronds together in the form to make the weaving tight. Snip two inch wide palm fronds to 11 inch lengths. Normally we don t use palm leaves for our cabana roofs.

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One way to learn palm frond weaving is to start with a simple project such as a palm frond fish. The reason is that they are too short. 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.