Cute purses made out of coconuts

Erik of Afrigadget found these cute bags made out of coconuts on Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya, while traveling with his daughter. As he points out, it's one example of a great way for locals to make money from tourists using local resources that might otherwise become garbage. Coconut + Zippers = Handbags

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  You could do some damage with one of those.

• [Anonymous]

  I love the polished ones: http://www.flickr.com/photos/l-i-n-k/4150457102/

• [Anonymous]

  When I was in Ghana this past summer, I saw these purses everywhere.

• [Anonymous]

  The Honolulu swap meet is held twice weekly at Aloha Stadium where vendor have found every possible imaginable use for coconuts and parts thereof. Including the purses pictured above but lined with pretty, shiny fabric. My daughter loves hers and it just happens to fit her favorite giant rubber ball full of gold flakes swirling in mysterious fluid. $10 for a fancy coconut purse/swirly giant ball holder.

• [apoxia]

  These would be confiscated at the border in NZ.

  • [MelSkunk]

    Sadly the same here if I remember the plant product import rules. Still, very clever and simply done.

• [jfrancis]

  No bras?

• [velocity girl]

  A great eco-friendly, ethical company in Toronto is making amazing, wonderful things out of coconuts and palm trees.

  Check it out: http://www.eco-gear.ca

  Dinnerware and Housewares: http://www.eco-gear.ca/ecohome_coconut.html

  Purses and bags: http://www.eco-gear.ca/BagsNStuff.html

• [Anonymous]

  Just go to Brazil and u will see amazing handicraft things..A-ma-zing !

• [Steve Lodefink]

  mmmmm… cocopunk.