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The conspiracy of the Hawaiian Rug
The Makaloa Mat
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The Makaloa mat is titled a traditional Hawaiian Heirloom
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In kolidge, these images are said to contain a history of heritage. We can see they are merely repeated shapes.
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In a weave where the strands run the full length of the piece, individual strands can move up and down the weave as the piece is stretched, (for example while walked on).
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This causes the edges of the mat to pull up, with the weight and stress of the tension on only a few fibers.
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This can cause the fibers to break. So large mats with strands running the length of the piece are very fragile.
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To prevent the movement of threads and uneven stress, mat-makers add twists and bends to the fibers.
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A floor mat is important. It is energy technology. It keeps people and things off the floor.
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Disease risks reduced by floor mats• Bugs• Microbes• Fungus• Temperature stability
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In college, the story goes:• The missionaries took the mats from the Hawaiians to “preserve”
them. • Hawaiians were prevented from making further mats, and it is said
that the culture was lost until recently, where Hawaiians learned from other islands how to make similar mats. • Estimates are of up to 90% of Hawaiians died from disease after
occupation by missionaries. • Hawaiians were moved from their traditional homes and placed in
“New” homes built by the missionaries before they began to die from disease.
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Details on the mat removal.
• Hawaiians were prevented from further mat-making to encourage other manufacturing, as the Hawaiians were slated to begin importing European mats. (each kind of mat houses a unique microbial biome, as each mat is a unique material composition)• All of the mats were taken and hidden from the Hawaiians to prevent
them from making more. This was stated as a measure to increase the historical value of the taken mats. • New mats were imported, but only very few. Imports were “unable to
meet demand”.
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Many other “Indigenous” were displaced before they died from disease.• Many native American settlements were relocated into undesirable
swampy areas. • Americans were given materials that were new to them, and would
house micro-organisms that were new to them. They were forced to remain indoors in very humid conditions by missionaries, and packed too many into small rooms with their new materials. • Americans died in debate-able numbers within the concentration
camps, some estimates total death rates at 90% - 98%. *within monitored concentration camps.
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Many other “indigenous” made similar grass mats.
Here is a picture of a “burial” mound. Living on raised areas also improves ventilation. Americans were removed from these heritage sites by missionaries, where they lived for all time, and forced to live in swamps, so that these sites could be “preserved”.
There are other heritage items that would prevent disease. There are arguments that disease is not so prolific unless nurtured intentionally. There are arguments that the diseases that killed Americans were so successful due to measures taken by missionaries.