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● A tatami
is a type of mat used as a flooring material in traditional Japanese-style rooms.
Traditionally
made of rice straw to form the core (though nowadays sometimes the core is composed of compressed wood chip boards or polystyrene foam), with a covering of woven soft rush (igusa) straw, tatami are made in uniform sizes.
Usually,
on the long sides, they have edging (heri) of brocade or plain cloth, although some tatami have no edging.
