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 ...
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 ...
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 Brown ...
Hoi village in Tan Le commune, Hung Ha district, Thai Binh province has been weaving mats for a long time. Hoi village in Tan Le commune, Hung Ha district, Thai Binh province has been weaving mats for ...
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 ...
For a long time, the sedge mats of Hoi Village in Tan Le Commune, Hung Ha District in Thai Binh have been a typical product of the Red River Delta province. The main raw materials used to make mats ...