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give us this one so when the visit was done they departed in the boat pastor, meanwhile, travelled to Savaii

the best way he could, sold a parcel of land, and begged Mats among his relatives to pay the remainder of the price of the boat, which was no longer his.

You might think this was enough, but some months later the Harpies, having broken a thwart, brought back the boat to be repaired and repainted by the original owner.

Such customs, it might be argued, being double-edged,

I've started liking a bigger tile just maybe because of my eyes.

I saw you also put on your social media how you would style it with a mat, right? Are you going to create your own mat? Because you used existing mats, right, that are already out there.

Are you going to eventually come out with your own? Mats aren't on the list right now.

I think there's

so many awesome mats out there and so many great options.

Inside, the room smelled the same.

Mats and mildew and that faint coconut oil.

We'll be right back.

rusted through along the bottom edge, the paint gone off the lid, and so light I thought it was empty.

In a house with no furniture as we would understand the word, a bench is the entire interior architecture.

Mats everywhere, woven from cane and from marsh grass, and they are the floor, the bedding, the wall covering, the door, the seat, and the wrapping for anything that needs wrapping.

If I had to name one manufactured object that this civilization ran on, it would not be pottery and it would not be stone tools.

It would be woven mats made in quantities beyond counting by hands that made them so automatically they could hold a conversation throughout.

So many rooms [laughs].

And, like, you know what a lot of them have in them? Mats on the floor.

Yeah, to fuck.

So.

And there he sits.

Mats.

Yeah.

I thought that was over the line that he brought a confession booth with him [laughs].

second home.

The last four weeks I worked with somebody who knows how to weave with the leaves of a date palm because we have a project here in Berlin with the university around the Mkeka mats in Kenya.

I was very sure that this type of weaving will have traveled also further south and I did actually find a weaver that could teach me how to do it so we we were all me and the children we all had lessons with with that in order to learn it and to then you know return that knowledge also here share that knowledge also here it's a constant exchange of for example owara is something that of maybe 100 children one knew it and we could so to say bring knowledge back it's kind of preserving knowledge because in the age where everybody is on their phones and parents are busy you know trying to survive or also on busy on their phones and there is a lot of cultural heritage that gets lost and we find it really important to collect this knowledge and value it and find ways, new ways of making it popular and in that sense preserving it because it's very important.

Knowledge on many levels, on community level, on hand-eye coordination level, so there's many skills that one can gain that a phone with swiping doesn't.

Now, these are, are solid ones, and they're also, they're going on their appropriate, uh, uh, pads that have been strategically placed.

Mats, I don't know, you might call them instead of pa- whatever the case they are.

But they're just, they're just my boys.

They're growing up.