a very useful mat for festival season
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on February 21, 2000 at 14:13:50:
I was hoping I could find this info on the web to pass along to
hennafolks ... and located it ... from a reliable company I've delt
with for years. They're called xpen mats. They're wonderful henna
mats.
These are very useful, decent looking, inexpensive woven plastic
rug/mats that are wonderfully helpful in outdoor festival hennaeing!
The plastic mats at the link below can be unfolded at any festival
site so your clients will have a clean place to sit or lie down when
you henna parts other than hands .... and they can relax on them
while their henna dries, or sit around looking at pattern books. I
have a dozen or so of these, and have travelled with them for years.
These are the mats we used under the apple tree and in the banquet
glade last year at Sirius Rising , and people kept asking where to
find them. I love the 6x8's and the 9x9's! A mat lasts about 5 years
of heavy festival use. They fold up small. They're lightweight.
They hose off clean. They're great for picnics, camping, ....
festival use anytime you want to keep yourself, your clients or your
wares out of the dirt! This is the only solution I know of for doing
a tummyfull of henna at a festival without having your poor client lie
down in on the ground.
Why is this on a dog supply site? Purebreed dog owners in the summer
outdoor dog show circuit put their carefully groomed dogs on these
mats to wait in pristine tidiness until it's time for them to go into
the ring. You can't let your angelic platinum primped up poodle just
go roll in the grass before showtime!