Coir rope and paposh (door mat) making has always been an indigenous cottage industry at Sutiakathi Union of Swarupkathi (Nesarabad upazila ) of Pirojpur District for long. Abundance of coconut trees ...

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 ...

Outside a woman was dyeing coir ropes in a vat, inside there was the whirring sound of solar spinning machines as two women tried to weave the coir yarn into a rope. They were deeply immersed in their ...