1. Secondly, you dry the water hyacinth stems.

2. Wicker, Willow, Rattan, Seagrass, Water Hyacinth Wicker Baskets

3. And thirdly, you weave the water hyacinth into products.

4. Water hyacinth coat the waterways of Shanghai in a thick green carpet.

5. The plant is known as water hyacinth and its botanical name, Eichhornia crassipes.

6. Seeing water hyacinth as being valuable, being aesthetic, being durable, tough, resilient.

7. As demonstrated in both laboratory study and pilot study, formaldehyde adsorbed into water hyacinth plant is completely converted into harmless Acidoid

8. And that began my journey of learning how to weave and transform these dried water hyacinth stems into long ropes.

9. From the comfort of our boat we have the chance to observe a wide variety of flora and fauna - water hyacinth, pink dolphins, giant river otters, sometimes anacondas, and side neck turtles.

10. So I literally took my dried weeds in hand, there were several more of them, and went knocking from door to door to find out who could teach me how to weave these water hyacinth stems into ropes.