Resembling a very fine, polished bamboo, this thin cylindrical filament is drawn from the leaf-stalk of the Buri palm. Woven buntal creates a two-directional fabric of polished finish and geometric refinement.
Like other natural fibers, buntal is manually extracted by pulling individual fibrous materials from the palm stalk; however, any given palm can only be harvested for one of its two distinctive fibers – either buntal, drawn from the stalk, or raffia, from the leaf – but not both. Top quality buntal approaches four feet in length.
