Making Mats Out Of Plastic Milk Bags

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.

Making mats out of plastic milk bags.

Northwest haiti christian mission canada has a mats 4 haiti program that distributes milk bag sleeping mats and totes for people in haiti. This is a video of how to make a crochet mat with plastic milk bags. 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. Two dufferin peel csdb students demonstrate how to weave recycled milk bags into useful sleeping mats for victims of tragedy worldwide.

I first heard about it when i was talking with some women at a local coffee group. Tie one end of the cord to a mop handle. How to make a floor mat out of plastic bags. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms. Making milk bag mats. Cutting the bags is just the first step in the process of turning plastic bags into sleeping mats. They had an overabundance o.

Continue to tie ends of the cords close to each other on. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Tie the bags at each end until the cords are slightly over the desired length of.