Mat, rushes secured with cord, used for offerings made during the bear ceremony (iyomante): Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century

Bag (ekamasune), woven rushes with chevron design and patterned indigo fabric panels at ends: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th century

Child's shoe made of string and plaited rushes for ordinary wear: Korea, ca. 1840

Semicircular basket of woven rush: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Animal tail sporran, with attached ball of woven rushes wrapped in blue black and white beadwork: Eastern Africa, Malawi, Ngoni, late 19th century

Dark-stained oak armchair with panelled sides, pierced with a flying bird motif, and a drop-in seat of woven rush covered with chequered horsehair, from the Argyle Street Tearooms, Glasgow (probably used in the ground floor rooms), designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1898, and made at the workshop of Francis Smith, Glasgow, 1898 - 1899

Sculpture, blown glass sphere filled with autumn leaves, in woven basket of twigs and rushes: Netherlands, Amsterdam, Elizabeth Swinburne, c. 1985