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excellent mulch. Straw is resistant to being crushed and therefore makes a good packing material. A company in France makes a straw mat sealed in thin plastic...

nobility and samurai slept on tatami or woven mats called goza (茣蓙), while commoners used straw mats or loose straw for bedding. Tatami were gradually popularized...

Similar straw capes were also used in China, Vietnam and Korea. Rice straw has naturally water-repellent properties, with water droplets that hit a mat of...

martial arts katana cuts to one mat (suegiri)", "Fastest 1,000 martial arts sword cuts", "Most sword cuts to straw mats in three minutes", and "Fastest...

paper-making material, for ornamenting small surfaces as a "straw-mosaic", for plaiting into door and table mats, mattresses and for weaving and plaiting into light...

selected bunches of ripe grapes will be laid out on mats in full sun. (Originally the mats were made of straw, but these days the plastic nets for the olive...

Judaean Desert near the Dead Sea, Israel. The collection wrapped in a straw mat found under debris in a natural crevice contained 442 objects: 429 of...

involving Dong and Emperor Ai. They often slept together on the same straw mat. One afternoon, after Emperor Ai woke up from a nap, Dong was still sleeping...

giving up on late-night parties at ryotei, restaurants with traditional straw-mat tatami rooms where geisha entertain, in favour of the modern comforts...

citrus being the only winter fruit in Italy. The man's dress is a simple straw mat: in the original version of the painting the old man wore a cape on which...

producing a good harvest. In some places, family members would sit on a straw mat in front of the toilet and eat a mouthful of rice, symbolising eating...

binding all the elements of the kadomatsu, it is bound with a straw mat and newly woven straw rope. Kadomatsu are placed in pairs on either side of the gate...

from flies laying eggs on the cottage cheese that is left to drain on a straw mat, by the farmer in the open air. If Mish is prepared in a factory, it does...

wines may also be described as straw wines since they are often produced by drying the freshly harvested grapes on straw mats in a warm and well ventilated...

merged in the late 15th century into the komosō ("straw-mat monks," named after the straw sleeping-mats which they carried along), which played the shakuhachi...

off evil spirits and has medicinal properties. A Shochikubai Komodaru (straw mat cask) of sake before the kagami biraki Decorative sake containers in a...

martial arts katana cuts to one mat (suegiri)", "Fastest 1,000 martial arts sword cuts", "Most sword cuts to straw mats in three minutes", and "Fastest...

1920s. He died in 1933. The 14th Dalai Lama was born on 6 July 1935 on a straw mat in a cowshed to a farmer's family in a remote part of Tibet. According...

Some substances were wara (藁; rice straw), goza (茣蓙; woven rush mats) or tatami-omote (畳表; the top layer of tatami mats), bamboo, and thin steel sheets....

prison, and led to the scaffold. With perfect composure he kneeled atop a straw mat, beyond which was a rectangular hole dug in the rich, dark earth to absorb...