Coconut Coir Mat - Vellore
Coir mat making is an interesting art seldom chosen by the people to learn. The coir mat is made of coir twine. These natural brown coir twine is bought from the market and according to the design concept, some coir twine are colored and segregated. Rectangular wooden frame with the nails attached to it is used for this process, and the coir mat making procedure gets begin. At the one end of the coir twine, some length of the twine is divided into two strands and is knotted around the first nail of the wooden frame. And the coir twine is wound vertically of the frame around the nails that are at the opposite sides of the wooden frame. Once the first layer is wound around the nails as the base, the same coir twine is continued to be woven for the second layer of the mat by winding it around the nails horizontally to the frame, by attaching the fresh coir twine to the one which is being wound and the process of winding gets continued to the second layer. Once the whole of the second layer of winding gets completed the same coir twine is continued to be wound for the third layer, which is wound vertically to the frame and in the end it is knotted to the nail that is placed in a corner of the frame. Then the desired colored coir twine is weaved by inserting it in the spaces in-between the layers of the coir twine that is wound. This colored coir twine is weaved according to the ‘X’ pattern on these three layers of coir twine by using the knotting technique. Once the weaving is completed, the extra coir twine is cut and the mat is removed from the wooden frame. As a final practice, whole of the mat is cross-checked by the artisan and kept for the sales.
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