Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Turning water hyacinth into valuable handicrafts

Water hyacinth, which seems to be discarded or just made animal feed but through the skillful hands of humans, water hyacinth is like to get soul and turning into beautiful art products that bring high economic value. 


Unlike other plants, which growers have to work hard every day to grow well, water hyacinth grows naturally a lot in canals, ponds or lakes with good growth and development. No one thinks that "a pest" that just floats by the water can become the passion for many people. And there are many successful young people starting out from water hyacinth. 

The root of the water hyacinth is quite long, the water hyacinth is nearly 1m high, and the better the soil, the faster it grows. Normally it just takes about 3 months for a harvest season of water hyacinth. 


In the past, water hyacinth is usually a source of food for feeding fish, pig, buffalo or cow, or used to incubate mushroom or make manure. But nowadays, people take advantage of water hyacinth like a material for valuable handicrafts. 

Fresh water hyacinth after reaching a height of about 7-8cm will be cut up and dried. Water Hyacinth is dried from 4-5 sunny days, every 500kg of fresh raw water hyacinth will produce about 40kg of dried water hyacinth. 


Water hyacinth is a favorite material to make handicrafts like bag, hat, coaster, vase, … or even for weaving furniture like table, chair, sofa, … 

Handicrafts made of water hyacinth are loved so much by domestic consumer and international consumer as well due to it’s softness, durability, fashion and good adaption to all weather condition: not brittle when hot and not hard when cold. 


We supply high quality handicrafts made of water hyacinth for export. 

Please feel free to contact us for more details of our products 

Lucy (Ms.) 
HP/Whatsapp: +84 396802832 
Skype: gautrucluca 
Email: Sales2@safimex.com 
SAFIMEX JOINT STOCK COMPANY

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