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 ...

The patterns, colours and technique of traditional Vietnamese mat weaving are on display in an online exhibition through the artworks of Pham Hong Linh. Due to the ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Seen from afar, a section of Road 867 across Long Dinh Commune the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang resembles a colorful work of art, rather a painting. VietNamNet Bridge – Seen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ngot Bi, is 91 years old and is one of the most revered senior citizens in Kampung Semera Ulu Sadong Jaya, Asa Jaya, Sarawak where she lives. She is among the few remaining traditional mat weavers in ...