Local Materials

• Local - belonging to or connected with a particular place or area that you are taking about or with the place where you live.
• Local Materials - the resources that can be found readily in large quantity at a particular location or area at a certain time.
• Local Materials - materials that can be used to fabricate (create) a finished element (product)
• Local Materials - materials that could be abundant in some area but are not available in another
• Abaca - belongs to the family of bananas.
• Abaca - Its fiber has a natural luster of colors ranging from pure white to ivory and dark brown.
• Abaca - Famous products: slippers, ropes, twine, hammock, frame, display jar, chelsea chair
• Bakbak - The outermost covering or the leaf sheath of the abaca stalk, usually braided or twined to make a flat thick durable sheath.
• Bakbak - The strong brown fiber is used to make furniture, mats, boxes, bins, display jars, armchair, cecilia dining table.
• Bamboo - used as a raw material in creating many products.
• Bamboo - typically used in construction, or textiles, and as musical instruments or weapons
• Bamboo - Famous products: kubing, bungkaka, tongatong, angklung, pateteg, gabbang.
• Buntal - cylindrically shaped fibers with supple ivory white strands that are durable, pliable, and with good dyeing qualities.
• Buntal - Famous products: bags, shoes, desk accessories, wallet, lamp shades, window blinds.
• Buri - extracted from matured leaves of the buri palm with fiber that is durable and resistant to moisture.
• Buri - Famous products: hats, bags, baskets, perfume tray.
• Coir - fibrous material surrounding the fruit of the coconut tree.
• Coir - Coconut Coir Fiber Products: Indoor or outdoor fiber carpets, wall covering, doormat
• Nito - a plant belonging to the fern family that grows abundantly in the hinterlands of Mindanao.
• Nito - Products: Bags, bread tray, lampshade
• Pandan - a tropical plant that is processed and transformed into splints that are being used as a raw material.
• Pandan - Products: Baskets, hats, picture frames, bags
• Raffia - a fiber extracted from unopened buri leaf in three (3 stages) which is woven into fabrics or used as wall coverings, upholstery material, folding doors and window hangings.
• Raffia - Products: hats, placemats, folder, shoes
• Rattan - belongs to the palm family which can be high or low climbers, single stemmed of clustered rattan species.
• Rattan - Products: baskets, novelty items, zoya lounge chair
• Tikiw - a large, erect, and aquatic or marshy herb plant.
• Tikiw - Found in Central Luzon and Mindanao, it abound in freshwater swaps, and in newly opened rice land at low altitude.
• Tikiw - Products: baskets, hampers with lids, bags, rugs, carpets, jars
• Tikog - belongs to sea grasses.
• Tikog - a native reed plant used as a raw material for mat weaving
• Tikog - Products: bags, newspaper racks, table mat, waste bin
• Ilongot Jewelry (pearl readhombil beak, plants,

  metals)
• Ifugaos' "Hagabi" chair (narra)
• Blood Painting by Elito Circa (aka “Amangpintor" )