AY Honors/Mat Making/Answer Key

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1. In your culture name the materials which are used in mat making.

Coconut
Bullrush
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Hemp
Straw
Date palm
Screw pine

Mats are made of many, many different types of material, including:

Coir (coconut fibers)
Reeds
Bullrushes
Hemp
Rattan (cane)
Various grasses
Straw
Palm leaves
Screw pine (Pandanus) leaves

2. Explain and demonstrate how to prepare this material.

Coir

Reeds, Bullrushes, and Grass

Hemp

Rattan

Generally, raw rattan is processed into several products to be used as materials in furniture making. The various species of rattan ranges from several millimetres up to 5-7 cm in diameter. From a strand of rattan, the skin is usually peeled off, to be used as rattan weaving material.

Straw

Palm leaves

Screw pine

3. Name plants that can be used for making dyes in your culture. Tell where they come from and how to prepare them for dying.

Rattan

The fruit of some rattans exudes a red resin called dragon's blood. This resin was used as a dye for violins, among other things. The resin normally results in a wood with a light peach hue.

4. Show how to use native and synthetic dyes in dyeing mat making material.

5. Make two mats showing two different types of weaving. One of the mats must have a reasonably fine weave.

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