Ronde Large Table Mat

This banana fiber table mat has been created in spiralling circles. It is part of Ikai Asai's Lila collection and takes inspiration from Pondicherry and its gentle pace of life. It is handcrafted and therefore slight variations in colours, textures and forms are inevitable and aren't flaws. Banana fibre is extracted from the bark of the banana plant. The trunk is peeled and the skin is separated. The white portion of the bark is processed into knotted fibres. Once the bark is spliced, the pieces are hand-twisted into ropes. The ropes are immersed in water and hand crochet-ed into this mat.