Rattan Placemats

placemats
A placemat is a protective table pad usually made of paper, plastic or cloth for restaurants and households. Asian-style placemats may feature thin slats of bamboo or colourful beads. The term is derived from the mat being put at a person's "place" (chair) at a table.

rattan
A length of such a stem used as a walking stick
climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes
the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes
a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms
The thin pliable stems of a palm, used to make furniture
The tropical Old World climbing palm that yields this product, with long, spiny, jointed stems