Synthetic Twine Macramé Production: An Avenue for Economic Empowerment in Nigeria

Abstract

The Nigerian Government is doing her best to cushion the effects of unemployment in the country by introducing industrial policies aimed at promoting small-scale industries. But to an extent, there is still large scale unemployment. Therefore, the study sought to introduce the craft of macramé as an effort towards small medium enterprise (SME). The materials employed in this study are synthetic twines. The twines were collected in assorted colours, and were further sorted, measured, counted and knotted into fashionable female bag and footwear accessories. The study explored the Square Knot, Josephine Knot and Over hand knotting techniques of macramé.  Synthetic twine has been discovered to be an affordable, durable, strong and available material with bright colours for the production of fashionable female accessories that could be admired and used by lovers of hand crafted bag and footwear accessories. It has also been gathered from this study that synthetic twine macramé can be of great advantage if properly engaged by individuals to boost entrepreneur and small scale business for economic empowerment of Nigerians.

Keywords: Synthetic twine, macramé, skill acquisition, economic empowerment