How to Make a Beautiful Raffia Fringe Macrame Bag (Video Included)

Love, love, love this DIY! I came across some really beautiful macrame and raffia bags on Pinterest and I had to make my own.

What a fun and easy DIY project and you only need a few supplies.

You can either watch my easy full Video Tutorial (at the bottom of this page)…

…or you can use my Blog tutorial below.

• Macrame or Straw Bag
• Assorted Raffia
• Gold Scissors ( …because they are so cute!)
• Embroidery Needle ( If needed for your particular bag)

Step 1:

Collect multiple colors of Raffia at one time and measure 10″ lengths. Next, cut the 10″ grouping in half to be 5″ lengths. Continue to do this until you have a big pile. You’ll need a lot! I basically used about half of each colored spool.

Step 2:

Take a 5″ strip of raffia and fold in half. Now, with the loop side down, slide it through an open loop on the bag. It’s important to remember to always point your raffia folded loop downward when making your fringe. If you point it up the fringe will not hang downward.

Step 3:

Now take the the two ends of the raffia and pull it through the loop of your raffia.

Step 4:

Now keep adding your raffia to your bag until you get the desired fullness.

I added fringe on only one side of the bag and about 4 inches from the bottom of the bag.

Yippee! You are all done! I wanna know how your bag turned out so please let me know in the comments.

Want another cute project using raffia?

…try a raffia embroidered basket! sooooo cute!

You may want to watercolor your own white sneakers like the ones shown in the photo above.
They are so easy to make!

I hope you love the DIY!

Be sure to “Pin it” to your favorite DIY Board.