From pineapple to fashion


PASIR GUDANG: A lecturer with Politeknik Ibrahim Sultan and his team turned “farm into fashion” when they transformed pineapple leaves into fabric, which is then used to produce other fashion accessories.

Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid, a senior lecturer in fashion design, said the venture started 13 years ago and it took them about three years just to research ways to convert the fibre inside pineapple leaves into yarn.

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