Harvest : A Banana Fibre Jewellery Collection

Category: Accessories

With 60% of the banana plant discarded post-harvest, this project transforms agro-waste into culturally rooted, sustainable jewellery through heritage-sensitive design. Engaging with the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Nagaland, the initiative draws from indigenous knowledge systems and natural crafting practices to co-create ornaments as wearable narratives. Here, banana fibre is both material and metaphor — not traditionally used in adornment, but reimagined as a contemporary expression of the enduring relationship between people and their environment. The project advocates conscious production and consumption, celebrates man–nature interdependence, and promotes circular design by revitalising craft vocabularies and challenging extractive norms of luxury.