The most popular of the mats produced in West Bengal is the madur, its production is now undertaken on an organised scale by weavers of the Mahishya caste mainly in the southern districts of Midnapore, West Bengal, an area covering the coastal area of the state, west of the river Ganga.

Woven on a simple bamboo frame loom with a warp of cotton thread and the weft -the thin soft reed, madur kathi that is cultivated in the Sabong and Ramnagar areas of Midnapore district.

Three types of madur are made in Midnapore-ekrokha, dorokha and masland. Dorokha, with a double madur kathi weft is thicker and is more comfortable to sit or lie on than the simple ekrokha that and is used for general purposes, while the masland is very fine-textured and made with carefully selected reeds. It has two borders of beautiful geometrical designs, sometimes in a deep magenta, but most often in a self-colour, the designs showing up through the texture of the patterns only. The main centres of madur and masland mat production in Midnapore are Ramnagar, Sabong, Kholaberia, Sadirhat and Narayan