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.

the artisans are still doing the job inherited from their forefathers and the floor mat made with the bark from a variety of trees known as paitra is widely used in bedrooms. Nobody knows when ...

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 ...