1 At the bottom of a handbag or raffia shopper.

2 Tie in place with raffia, leaving the bud exposed.

3 Bind with raffia and wax in the usual way.

4 Carefully cut the raffia free once new top growth indicates a successful graft.

5 That pleasing equilibrium between man, raffia, mud or whatever, does of course still prevail in various parts of the world.

6 Island craftsmen make everything from leather goods and raffia to local pottery and beautiful hand-made jewellery using the famous Majorcan pearls.

7 Some embroidered tablecloths or made raffia mats.

8 Wrap with moss held in place with clear polythene tied either side with raffia or tape.

9 Shakily Ruth stepped out of the car, reaching for her raffia shoulder-bag in the back seat.

10 We also had looms and were taught weaving, basketwork and raffia.

11 Often she stopped on the way to get him a plastic bag of Milo, tied shut with raffia string, a straw poking through.

12 Delight someone special with this beautiful bouquet. It includes lilies, garden blooms and greenery,[] stunning and charming. This bouquet is decorated with a raffia bow.

13 The products are very much inline with Lin's environmentally friendly approach to business, one that in recent years has led her to use fish skin and raffia as replacements for leather.

14 Anggy Haif, an Eco-Couture designer from Cameroon, has worked for 10 years with natural fibers including raffia, tree bark and wild seeds collected in the forest.

15 Then there's brown paper, which looks stunning tied up with ribbon (recycled from an old present or bouquet of flowers preferably) or raffia.

16 You can add a mushroom bird and glue a bit of raffia to its beak so it looks as if it's using it for nesting material.

17 If you're looking for a more frugal material, you can use paper, raffia, jute twine, mini pine cones, seeds, hard candies or crafter's dried fruit or flowers, fabric, twigs, pine or bark.

18 I collapse into my bedroom, a tin shack lined with a sort of raffia arrangement and Burberry bedspreads, for half an hour before heading to the country-style restaurant.