COMMON HANDICRAFT MATERIALS Flashcards
makers fashion them into accessories, bags, bamboo sofa sets, baskets, cabinets, clothes, lampshades, wall décor, and others.
Filipink handicap
•Every______ owns handicraft products like baskets, brooms, feather dusters, and other furniture and also accessories like earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and other clothing apparel made from natural products such as beads, shells, and seeds.
Filipino family
Filipino———- them into accessories, bags, bamboo sofa sets, baskets, cabinets, clothes, lampshades, wall décor, and others
handicraft makers fashion
•a tree-like herb resembling the banana plant. It is durable and dyed in different colors.
ABACA (MUSA TEXTILIS)
•It is used for the furniture industry because of stability.
It is also a valuable material for basket and hat making.
BAMBOO (BAMBUSA SPINOSA)
•A palm from which three kinds of fibers, namely buri, raffia, and until, are taken. It can be dyed merely and woven into many shapes. The buri leaf is the most flexible material used for making hats, boxes, and other novelty items.
BURI (CORYPHA ELATA)
•A greenish-grey as it dries and is used traditionally in making bags, baskets, hats, and mats
CARAGUMOY (PANDANUS SIMPLEX)
•the most utilized palm in the Philippines. Its cocomidrib is used primarily as handicraft material for the production of baskets, and brooms (tingting). The coco shells are used for manufacturing articles such as buttons, coin banks, lamp shades, pins, and others.
COCONUT (COCOS NUCIFERA)
•A by-product of the buri palm. Locally, the term “kalas” (which means “to loosen”) refers to the loosened strands of a buri rope. It creates an unusual, rustic pattern with distinct characteristics from its original material when artistically woven
KALAS
• A material created through the tanning of skins of animals like carabaos, horses, snakes, alligators, goats, lizards, and others
LEATHER
•A variety of screw pine abundantly distributed along sandy beaches and coastal brushes in the Philippines.
PANDAN-DAGAT (PANDANUS TECTORIUS)
•The most flexible material used in the manufacturing industry and been known to extend up to hundreds of meters long
RATTAN (CALAMUS MAXIMUS)
•A type of grass in shallow salty and brackish waters. It has distinctly triangular stems, and the leaves are broad and long.
SEAGRASS (RHYNCHOSPORA CORYMBOSA)
•(Central Luzon, Southern Luzon, and Mindanao Regions).
•This handicraft is mostly in the Central Luzon region, mainly from the province of Bulacan. This can also be found in Mindanao regions, particularly in its southern portion where powerful brass amulets and other accessories are produced.
JEWELRY
•(SOUTHERN LUZON AND MINDANAO REGIONS)
•THIS TYPE OF HANDICRAFT IS IN THE SOUTHERN LUZON REGION, PARTICULARLY IN THE PROVINCE OF BATANGAS. A PREVALENT METAL CRAFT THAT IS LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY AS AN EXCELLENT SOURCE FOR A PORTABLE KNIFE IS CALLED BALISONG. TRADITIONAL WEAPONS MADE FROM BRASS, BRONZE, AND GOLD, ARE ALSO ABUNDANT IN THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO.
METAL CRAFT
