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SALINAS, Calif. -- Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for homeless people to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic ...

We weave their names and – at times – their faces into the mats. We used the iko to weave the photos, write the names, and we have pretty designs. We designed some for governors and they loved it.

Despite this change, Seo Soon-im sticks to weaving traditional sedge mats or “hwamunseok,” one of the island’s indigenous products, in her rustic house nestled on a steep hill on the island.

Mats and mat weaving have become the proud heritage of the people of Định Yên Village. -- VNA/VNS Photos Nhựt An Định Yên Village, home to over 800 families making a living primarily from sedge mat ...

Katrina Sock, a Parks Canada interpreter, holds up a cedar mat. She's helping to run a public program to inspire Mi'kmaw to weave with cedar again and to teach people about weaving. (Oscar Baker ...

But I’m old and I tire easily. It’s a difficult process to weave these mats. Often, my body aches after hours of weaving. But I continue to do it as I enjoy weaving. Slowly but surely ...

The age-old practice of turning tree leaves into mats has been revived on the islands. “It teaches you how to weave relationships, past and present,” one master artisan says. By Patricia Leigh ...

The weaving takes place in Morris' craft room in her house in Terry. The women typically gather every other Monday to work on the mats, usually completing one in a matter of hours. Morris first ...

Agribusiness consultant and development advocate, Klutse Kudomor, has called for strategic interventions to develop the local mat weaving industry in South Tongu in the Volta region. In an ...