We're Working to Save the Craft
The traditional Khmu bag, known today as Nature Bag, Earth’s Greenest Bag™ is endangered. The craft of making it rapidly is disappearing from large areas in Laos’ north. A traditional bag can take days to make. But only a couple of hours, scissors, a needle and some thread are needed to make a bag from non-woven polypropylene. Markets in Northern Laos offer thousands of large bags made of that earth-damaging material. China, sometimes only an hour walk away, sends many products into Laos packed in these harmful bags. It's easier for the Khmu to use that cheaply-acquired material rather than Jungle Vine® to make a carry bag, even if it lasts only a few weeks rather than...