Design for Social Entrepreneurship

Sunday, April 24, 2011

The straw landscape and more














Basket displayed at the Smithsonian

Boruca people of Costa Rica

Japanese straw crafts and applications

Lots of weaving/basket-making examples

Road-side store in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Making clothing out of chicken feathers and rice straw

"Agro-textiles - a rising wave"

Pack Baskets

Rising above poverty with bamboo

How to make a net

Ock Pop Tok

"Sanwan turns rice straw into handicrafts"

"The braiding machine"

And finally...something that would have certainly been helpful in Costa Rica ;)
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