GANGHWA ISLAND — The landscape of Ganghwa Island, just west of Seoul, has changed from one filled with traditional houses that once vigorously produced sedge crafts to one filled with posh summer ...
For well over a century the people of Subidpur village in Pirojpur's Kawkhali upazila have been producing naturally cool shitalpati mats woven from the reed-like murta plant locally called paitara.
THEY ARE NOT dream weavers, but residents of two islands hundreds of kilometers apart, weave sleeping mats on which people may experience wonderful dreams. This is because the islands—Anda in ...
During our recent trip to Southern Palawan, we were thrilled to learn about the rich heritage of an Indigenous group from Tawi-Tawi, who introduced the exquisite craft of Jama Mapun mat weaving to the ...
Trichy: The traditional korai mat (reed grass mat) producers in Musiri are in for a revival as they will soon get the state’s first micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) cluster for korai mat ...
Over a dozen children from L'nui Menikuk (Indian Island) First Nation, 66 km north of Moncton, were part of a program that's helping to revive cedar weaving, an art rarely practiced in Mi'kma'ki. The ...