About GrafixMat Coasters • Front • Back Story
About GrafixMat Coasters:
Each GrafixMat® is a work of art, masterfully laser-engraved on the cork front with a unique and amusing story colorfully illustrated on its flip-side. For a treasured gift or your own personal collection; select one or create a set of 2, 4, 6 or more from 21 themed Collections totaling more than 500 contemporary and fine art designs. Made from eco-friendly recycled cork from Portugal and Spain, yet handcrafted in the U.S.A. GrafixMats® are so artfully designed and intriguing, we've created a hanging hole in the back of each coaster.
All Natural • Durable • Easy Wash • Singles or Sets • Storage Caddies • 4 1/4" Diameter, 5/16" Thick • Green Certified
Front Design:
Salmn Chum
The Back Story:
An Abundant Alaskan Salmon
Adult Chums (also called “keta” or “dog”) have the widest distribution of all Pacific salmon species. They are plentiful in interior Alaska, where they are traditionally dried as a winter food source, but are less viable as a coastal commercial fishery. The “dog salmon” name comes from the male’s hooked snout and large teeth.
Mature Chums weigh between 6 to 17 lbs.; like other salmon they migrate upstream in the freshwater stream of their birth to spawn and die. Juveniles return almost immediately after hatching to ocean waters and tidal estuaries.
In rivers and waterways blocked by dams and locks, humans build fish ladders that enable salmon to complete the migration and spawning cycles that assuretheir species’ survival.