It wasn't long before they sank onto the straw matting and began exploring some now familiar territory.
There was no sign of fire, the woven straw matting was unscorched.
He drove out of town and saw thousands of squatters living in tents made of straw matting.
Melodie lifted it, laid it aside, and then pulled up a layer of straw matting.
The floor was covered with finely woven straw matting and there was a bamboo umbrella stand inside the door.
The straw matting had been rolled up, the wood floors swept, and the Cajun carpets laid around the room.
In the summer it is covered with straw matting so that people can eat and drink on the terrace, out of the sun.
The scribe lifted his head from the straw matting on which he lay to peer into the near-blackness beyond.
Sparks entered through an open window, igniting the straw matting that covered the ground floor.
"Sleep on the floor's straw matting of a village inn," he wrote.