Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

Karla Smilie Groves and eight of her friends meet every Tuesday and Thursday to weave mats out of grocery bags for their neighbors who do not have homes. “I have always had a heart for the homeless, ...

Some metro seniors are staying active with a purpose. For an hour a week, residents at Embark at Statesman Club crochet shopping bags. It's tough work and takes an assembly line of close to a dozen ...

The Zikhali family have always made traditional mats, but hope their youngest daughter will have other options ...

SALINAS, Calif. -- Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for homeless people to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic ...

I built a simple loom to weave long grass mats for use as portable roofing material. Laying two layers of mats on a quick ...