Materials for Making an African Theme Decorative Pillow

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Denise Robinson, and I'm a set designer for television and film. And, I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. Okay, I'm going to decorate a pillow now, and I'm going to use, the materials to do that, I'm going to use a pillow that's already made, store bought, that has an animal print on it. I'm going to use some raffia. And, raffia is pretty much like straw or hay. And, I'm going to use some beads. What I did was I took an old belt that was beaded and just used the beads from there. Because if you buy beads of this size just straight out the store, they could be pretty expensive. So, use your resources if you don't, if you have a belt around the house that is beaded that you're not using anymore, you can use that. And, pretty much I just cut it and took the beads off the belt. Cause see, it still has the clasp on it. So, pretty much, what I'm going to do is take this pillow, add some raffia around the edges, add some beads, and put it on a chair. "