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 ...

Mat weaving or as in the Persian language “Hasirbafi”, which traces back a thousand years ago, is a kind of handicraft that is created differently in each region and by using various kinds of leaves.

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 ...

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 oldest piece of Hasir in Iran belongs to the Shahdad region of Kerman province. Mat weaving, which is wearing thin reeds through cotton yarns, has not changed from ancient Egypt until today.

There was a time people in Phu Tan Village, in central Phu Yen Province, thought sedge mat weaving, the region’s traditional craft, was going to die out. The old production method was labour intensive ...

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 interview, ...