Shitho Pati - Odt

 

 

 

Sitalpati is a kind of mat which mat which feels cold by nature. It is made from murta plants (Schumannianthus ( Schumannianthus dichotomus). dichotomus ). It is usually used in Bangladesh and Bangladesh and some parts of India. India. Mats with decorative designs are called nakshi pati.

Sitalpati is made from cane or from murta plants, known at different places as mostak, patipata, patibet and paitara. The murta plant grows around water bodies in Sylhet, Sylhet, Sunamganj Sunamganj,, Barisal, Barisal, Tangail Tangail,, Comilla Comilla,, Noakhali, Noakhali , Feni and Feni and Chittagong. Chittagong . These days nakshi pati made of murta plants is available only in Sylhet and Noakhali districts of Bangladesh. Unesco has  has recognised the Traditional Art of The Unesco Shital Pati weaving of Sylhet  and  and included it in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. also known as 'cool mat', was first described by Roxburgh, Roxburgh, with its current name after Gagnepain. Gagnepain. The plant belongs to the family Marantaceae and Marantaceae and no subspecies are listed. Schumannianthus dichotomus,

S. dichotomu dichotomus s is

typically found in muddy riparian  riparian  Assamese and  and Murta  Murta areas; it is known as Pati as Pati Doi in Doi in Assamese in Sylheti, Mostak  Sylheti, Mostak , Pati bet   patipata patipata and  and paitara  paitara in  in Bengali; in Vietnamese Vietnamese it  it is called lùm nướ c. 

 

It is a rhizomatous rhizomatous plant with an erect and glossy green stem attaining a height of 3–5 m and a diameter of up to 20 mm. The stems are leafy and [5] dichotomously branched. branched.[5] Geographically it is distributed in northeast Bangladesh,, West Bengal Bengal,, Assam, Assam, Burma Burma,, Thailand, Thailand, Bangladesh Cambodia, Vietnam Cambodia, Vietnam,, Peninsular Malaysia Malaysia,, Borneo Borneo   [6] In India it is i s found in riverine and the Philippines. Philippines.[6] In Majuli island  island in Assam Assam,, and  and Comilla, Comilla, areas like Majuli Tangail; Tangail; in Bangladesh the plant is found especially in the swamp forests forests of  of Sy Syllhe hett[7] [1] [1] and  and is cultivated mostly in the districts of Sylhet, Sunamganj, Sunamganj, Barisal, Tangail, Comilla, Noakhali, Feni and Chittagong.

The plant used for making the Shit Shital al pat p atii[8] a traditional bed mat in Eastern India and Bangladesh. Traditional Trad itional artisans make strips from the outer portion of the stem including the epidermal part. These split strips are processed and plaited into mats. Murta splits are also used for making prayer mats, baskets, bags, novelty items, etc. The strips from the pith portion are used as binding materials. Forestry Master Plan (1982) of Bangladesh estimates that about 8,000 people are employed e mployed in sitalpati making in the country. Swampy and marshy lands are suitable for murta cultivation. Traditionally it is rhizomes,, but can be also propagated through rhizomes

 

propagated through branch cuttings. The propagules are planted during the months of May–June. After planting it takes 2–3 years to reach the harvestable size. February–March is the harvesting period. It can also be propagated through seeds. It grows well in  trees partial shade. So, farmers often plant Erythrina plant Erythrina trees in murta fields. It needs no special management other than weeding. In the traditional production of Tungrymbai, an Indian fermented soybean soybean food,  food, the leaves are a re packed together with boiled soybeans.

 

Nearby Journal Entries: “DYSTOPIAN SUBMERSION, it means the throat is sore, the skin breaks out, white becomes brown then black like the river, black like the smog of plastic burning, smog thick air like early morning mist which lasts all day unrelenting. I stop to realize there are many places like this even if its worst here, many are choking. I ask questions about different kinds of suffering, suffer ing, about pollution, about corruption, about women. One young boy who looks old says “the thinking isnt developed,” this of course has nothing to do with the capacity to learn but the circumsta circumstance nce generated by recent linear time, history in a land which demands cyclical observation.. Unified time and space. Nature, which was since replaces by ambition, craving for revenue, production, a swollen working class.. enslaved by the rest of the world, for their excess, the people bathe in black rivers with sore throat and disease unrelenting. The call to prayer interrupts the nearby program draped red and green for Bangladesh

 

independence from from Pakistan – on this day in this town, almost 50 years ago.” “What is referred to as Cottage Industry, traditional artisanship of rural people producing household items from locally available raw material using artistic skill inherited through ages, often depicting design/ motif of nature of Bangladesh and its people, birds, foliages, sky, rivers, etc. Officially, according to BSCIC, Cottage Industry must be small-scale, workers not exceeding 20 with indigenous technology not run by power. power. If using power, workers must not exceed exceed 10. Net assets assets of unit should be less than 500,000 taka.. East India Company reduced export revenue from 13 million rs in 1815 to 1 million rs in 1832 by imposing ‘repressive steps’ on weavers of handloom product.. Import of foreign cloth also came that year. Further disruption in 1947 partition time.” “Gari Vipasana, observing internal and external change at a unique rate in obscured time, outside actual fixed space-time relation.

 

The emotions and thoughts, pleasant, pass as do shops and people and gardens and cloth hanging to dry in afternoon afternoon sun. sun. All incapturable incapturable, , moment tto o moment disolving into each other to become a single understanding. However, one may stop to take a photo or to write it down, to extend an instant selectively. And it is the accumulation of those selections which becomes hardened, hardened, stones in the river from which spectators may hop between for the sake of their own new vantage. Kipling wrote a similar metaphor about his experience on Grand Trunk Road to which he was ‘a log washed ashore after flood.’ Which is the narrative? The log, the shore, or the flood?” “The work is locating, however difficult, the enduring craft, then positing why it endures in spite of which challenges and what is required to preserve that tradition/culture.” “It’s normal for me,” I told Chuni as she wrapped her headscarf with ‘3 pins minimum’ refering to roaming a foreign street

 

aimlessly (eka) alone. We proceeded down the hostel stair where she signed herself out, time and she time leaves herdate, own ownlike home. home . does Chunievery fed fed me a she cupcake for breakfast.” “Last nights dream a plane I kept missing, time and date changing too late too early missed the bus, helicopter landing, ants were people, cheapest ride was a van not a plane after one flight attendent paid my way and let down her hair in aan n international international place. place. It was a round trip home for Christmas, one option completely unconsidered in the waking life. Meanwhile an obsession of my mothers surely who in the dream got herself a round-trip to help with my struggle, I was happy to see her but it was unnecessary she came, she she said she anyway anyway had to get out. Is my unconscious completely lost? Wandering a labyrinth in eternal confusion? Poor thing.”