Japanese tatami mats offer a beautiful traditional style of japanese floor covering.
Traditional japanese house flooring.
Offered by haiku design our tatami mats are all natural pesticide free flooring.
A tatami 畳 is a type of mat used as a flooring material in traditional japanese style rooms tatami are made in standard sizes twice as long as wide about 0 9 m by 1 8 m depending on the region.
A list of traditional features in japanese homes.
Two patterns of residences are predominant in contemporary japan.
Well one of the reasons for this is that the floors in traditional japanese rooms called washitsu are often covered in tatami flooring.
Everyone of course knows that you must take your shoes off when visiting a japanese home or inn but why.
Picture from japanese encyclopedia.
Tatami are mats made from woven rush grass edged with embroidered ribbon or wooden trim and when freshly.
Tatami are covered with woven soft rush 藺草 igusa straw the core is traditionally made from rice straw.
Housing in japan includes modern and traditional styles.
An engawa is an outer corridor that wraps around a japanese house.
These were traditionally used as a separator between delicate shoji and outer storm shutters.
The faint smell of tatami is a distinct characteristic of japanese rooms and the springy but.
Tatami floor mats and tatami mats are relaxing and eco friendly.
When the storm shutters are shut engawa feel something like a secret passageway that circles a house and can be extremely narrow.