How to make plates out of leaves
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Patravali or Pattal or Vistaraku or Vistar or Khali is an Indian eating plate or trencher made with broad dried leaves. It is mainly made from Sal leaves. It is also made from Banyan tree leaves. It is made in circular shape, by stitching 6 to 8 sal leaves with tiny wooden sticks.
It is popular during traditional meals, festivals and in temples. It is a cottage industry in India where women work on weaving them at home in spare time.It was used extensively in the ancient times by Hindu sages for its purity. It was a custom to serve food in a patravali for guest meal or celebrations, temple prasadam.
Patravali is made from wildly grown plants like sal tree, fodder, pala tree, jack fruit etc.
The plates are popular in villages in arid region in India like parts of Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Karnataka, Telangana, Tamilnadu etc. The Flame of the forest [[Butea monosperma]=Modhuga in Telugu amongst others provide leaves that are used either with many pieced together or singly (only in case of a banana leaf) to make a leaf-plate for serving a meal.
