Northwest haiti christian mission canada has a mats 4 haiti program that distributes milk bag sleeping mats and totes for people in haiti.
Making mats out of plastic milk bags.
John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.
One quarter to one third of the bags that are used to make a mat have to be strung on the loom before the weaver can start weaving.
They bring these mats to africa and.
Continue to tie ends of the cords close to each other on.
Two dufferin peel csdb students demonstrate how to weave recycled milk bags into useful sleeping mats for victims of tragedy worldwide.
I made several of these mats for a non profit organization called suitcases for africa.
Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats.
Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.
This is a video of how to make a crochet mat with plastic milk bags.
They had an overabundance o.
Tie one end of the cord to a mop handle.
The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms.
I first heard about it when i was talking with some women at a local coffee group.
So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come.
Making milk bag mats.