STOCKTON — Growing up, Falesoa Iaulualo and Sopo Saina watched as the women in their families would gather to create intricate mats made from the leaves of the pandanus tree. Weaving the mats is a ...
Beneath his father’s white, concrete pavilion in Mangilao, Jose Cruz, 38, sits on a corner of a still forming guafak, a traditional pandanus mat. Strand by strand, he folds over dozens of the ...