About GrafixMat Coasters • Front • Back Story
About GrafixMat Coasters:
Each GrafixMat® is a work of art, masterfully laser-engraved on the cork front with a unique and amusing story colorfully illustrated on its flip-side. For a treasured gift or your own personal collection; select one or create a set of 2, 4, 6 or more from 21 themed Collections totaling more than 500 contemporary and fine art designs. Made from eco-friendly recycled cork from Portugal and Spain, yet handcrafted in the U.S.A. GrafixMats® are so artfully designed and intriguing, we've created a hanging hole in the back of each coaster.
All Natural • Durable • Easy Wash • Singles or Sets • Storage Caddies • 4 1/4" Diameter, 5/16" Thick • Green Certified
Front Design:
Quilt Design
The Back Story:
Scherenschnitte ("Sheer-en-shnit")
The idea of a quilting bee, a gathering of women and children sharing their lives, their art, their spirit and their work, came naturally to the Hawaiians as their culture reflects an undying commitment to family and community. A passionate, artistic and strongly independent people, they immediately developed their own approach to quilt design and pioneered the technique of appliqué to quilts. Scherenschnitte (“sheer-en-shnit”), a German folk art in existence for centuries, is the art of cutting away the background and leaving the shape of the paper to form the desired image. Hawaiians’, heavily influenced by outside sources, combined this style of the Pennsylvania German missionaries with Chinese cut-paper floral designs with their own unique Hawaiian technique of appliqué in this beautiful quilt design.