Raffia Wall Hanging DIY

Bring a Boho vibe to your decor with this stunning raffia wall hanging DIY project. Wrap the raffia grass strands with embroidery thread for added color or leave plain for a more natural look!

I am really excited to share this raffia wall hanging with you today. Last year, I saw a picture of a Boho wall hanging on Etsy similar to this, but it is no longer available. I loved it and have wanted to make one of my own since I saw it, so I finally did! I wasn’t sure whether to technically call it a DIY raffia wreath or not, but it serves the purpose of that as well. 🙂

The Boho wall hanging I saw did not have the embroidery thread wrapped around the strands of raffia grass like this one does. I thought it would be a nice addition and a fun way to tie the raffia wall hanging into my fall color scheme. Of course, you can use whatever colors you wanted to, in order to coordinate with whatever colors you are decorating with. The other nice thing about this project is that if you prefer a more natural, neutral look, you can just skip the embroidery thread part of the tutorial!

This was a fairly easy DIY project to tackle. The making of it was very simple as you will see in the video, it just took a little time. But it was totally worth it! 🙂

I absolutely love the three dimensional look of this DIY raffia wall hanging. The three layers stacked on each other and the raffia fringe on the edges give it so much fullness and depth.

Here is a video of the process

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Supplies to make a DIY raffia wall hanging

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• Raffia
• Steel rings in three sizes, 6 inches, 8 inches and 10 inches
• Scissors
• Tape Measure/Measuring Stick
• Embroidery thread in colors of your choice (optional)

How to make a raffia wall hanging DIY project

The premise of this Boho wall hanging is very easy, it consists of essentially tying on raffia tassels to a steel ring. There are three layers to the wall hanging so I needed to fill up three different sized rings with raffia tassels. I have some tips for you to make it easier that I figured out as I went along:

• Cut the raffia strands as you go instead of cutting them all ahead of time. You could do this, however, it seemed to keep things easier and less tangled to cut it as I went.
• Some of the raffia grass comes in bigger widths that are more stiff. This made it a little more difficult to fold over and create a tassel. If I encountered one of the thicker strands of raffia, I would rip it apart into thinner strips. This made it much more pliable and easier to work with. It also made for a more uniform look to the raffia.
• Try to keep your raffia tassels the same thickness as you make the hanging. As I said some pieces of raffia are thicker that others so you may need less or more strands, depending on that. I generally used about 8-12 strands of raffia in each tassel.
• The finished size of the raffia wall hanging is about 23″ in diameter.

Cut your raffia strands to length

Because there are three different sized rings, I had to cut the raffia at different lengths for each ring. This ensured that the raffia fringe on the wall hanging would be uniform and end at the same length.

• 6″ ring = 18″ raffia strands which makes a 9″ tassel
• 8″ ring = 16″ raffia strands which makes a 8″ tassel
• 10″ ring = 14″ raffia strands which makes a 7″ tassel

How to make a raffia tassel

To make the raffia tassels, you will take the 8-12 cut strands of raffia (depending on their size) and arrange them so they all even and start at the same spot. There may be a few strands that are a bit longer than others but that is not a big deal. Next fold the raffia bundle in half.

Slip the folded end of the raffia bundle under the steel ring. Bring the ends of the raffia through the opening of the folded end. Pull on the raffia ends to tighten up the tassel. If there are any single strands that are not tight, pull on each one individually until you find the straggler. 

Fill up the steel rings with raffia tassels

I started with the biggest (10″) ring, but it really doesn’t matter which one you start with. Continue tying on the raffia tassels until the ring is filled up. Make sure the tassels are pressed tightly together to fill in all available space.

Here is the middle sized ring in progress.

And finally the smallest size ring with the longest tassels. 

I couldn’t wait to see them all stacked on each other. Looking good so far! 🙂

Here are all the completed rings, then them stacked on each other starting with the smallest ring on the bottom. You can really see the different lengths of raffia in these pictures.

Tying on the embroidery thread

Like I discussed above, I decided to add some colored embroidery thread to the raffia wreath to give it more interest and to coordinate it with my fall decor. I only added it to the topmost ring but I switched the order of the rings around to see what I liked best and this one won out!

I am not sure why I did not take any pictures of this process. Doh! But you can see it in the video. 😉 Basically I cut my embroidery thread to 10″ pieces. To make this process go faster, I cut a length of thread at 40″ then folded it in half and cut, and folded that in half again and cut. Which left me with four 10″ pieces in quick time.

I then tied the one thread onto the base of a raffia tassel using a regular granny knot. I wrapped the remaining end of the thread around the tassel leaving the cut end out. When I got towards the end of the thread, I tied the two ends together with a square knot to make sure they did not come untied. Lastly, I cut the thread ends off after the knot.

How to hang your DIY raffia wall hanging

On the Boho wall hanging I saw before, it looked like they had tied all three rings together with wire or something to create one unit. I was originally going to do that but in the end decided it was not necessary. One advantage that I see where it could be helpful would be that it would make it a sturdier piece to transport. When moving the individual rings filled with tassels, they are pretty flimsy. The tassels do not stick straight out, gravity pulls them down. However, when you have it hanging on the wall, that does not matter. They stay in place just fine. 

The individual rings of raffia tassels are really light so to hang the rings, I just tied another piece of raffia to the rings.

We had a nail already on our DIY shiplap mantel backdrop that I used to hang the rings. I had to adjust the sizes of the raffia pieces so that each ring would hang at the right spot.

These extra pieces of raffia are camouflaged by the other raffia (as is the nail) so they are not too noticeable at all! Smooth back the ends of the raffia fringe and you are good to go!

Don’t be swayed by the fall colors on my raffia wall hanging. This is easily a project that you can hang up all year round for decoration. Just don’t include the embroidery thread or change the colors to fit in with other holidays or even in a bedroom to match the bedding. That would be really cute! I could see this fitting perfectly into a teenager’s room!

I will be back next week to show you how this raffia wall hanging looks with the rest of my Boho fall decor! Talk to you then!