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Ooh this is so interesting, I love learning about weaving techniques! It looks really similar to what we call chattai

Shitalpati (Bengali: শীতল পাটি) is a mat woven from cane or murta plants, originally from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. The murta plant (Schumannianthus dichotomus) grows around water bodies in Sylhet. The main bearers and practitioners are weavers living mostly in the low-lying villages in the greater Sylhet region of Bangladesh, but there are also pockets of Shital Pati weavers in Barisal, Tangail, Comilla, Noakhali, Chittagong and other areas of the country. After the partition of Bengal, Shitalpati weaving was kept alive among the Sylheti refugees in India, and eventually Coochbehar and Jalpaiguri became prominent centres.

Shitalpati is usually rectangular in shape which can be rolled up to put away. When spread on the floor or bed, its upper surface appears glossy and smooth while the inner surface is rough. The people all over Bangladesh use it as a sitting mat, bedspread or praying mat. Although made of flat, thin strips of green cane, its natural look is brown in finished form. The weaving pattern gives it a texture akin to a jigsaw puzzle. The weavers are known as patial or patikaar (meaning 'mat-maker'). Sometimes the cane strips are woven in a way so as to create motifs of birds, animals, flowers and leaves or other symmetric patterns.

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Today's Seal Is: Hmph!

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twopartstudio

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Solar Eclipse Shadows

These solar eclipse shadows form due to the distance between the sun and the leaves on the trees. The distance and the proximity of the leaves to one another cause for a "lensing" type effect, making the eclipse shadow clearer to the human eye.

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They found a fallen star

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celestial scenery

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my body, tearfully: when sleep???

me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity

my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????

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Teatime.

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look at this pretty abandoned hotel in colombia

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Sound on to hear the water running through pebbles

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Sweet chestnut leaf with gold calligraphic inscription, Turkey, 19th century

The leaf is inscribed with a Qur’anic verse from Surat al-Isra’ (“The Night Journey,” Q17:80): “And say, ‘Lord grant me a good entrance and a goodly exit, and sustain me with Your power.”

Aga Khan Museum

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鎌倉 Kamakura, Japan

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Red Rugs

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