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


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  • local church
  • local music
• Local materials


  The resources that can be found readily in large quantity at a particular location or area at a certain time, materials that can be used to fabricate (create) a finished element (product), materials that could be abundant in some area but are not available in another
• Abaca


  • Belongs to the family of bananas
  • Its fiber has a natural luster of colors ranging from pure white to ivory and dark brown
  • Famous products: slippers, ropes, twine, hammock, frame, display jar, and 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
  • The strong brown fiber is used to make furniture, mats, boxes, bins, display jars, armchair, and the famous Cecilia dining table
• Bamboo


  • Used as a raw material in creating many products, typically used in construction, textiles, and as musical instruments or weapons
  • Famous products: Kubing, bungkaka, tongatong, angklung, pateteg, and gabbang
• Buntal


  • Cylindrically shaped fibers with supple ivory white strands that are durable, pliable, and with good dyeing qualities
  • Famous products: bags, shoes, desk, accessories like pen holder, picture frames, file trays, wallets, place mats, lampshades, window blinds
• Buri


  • Extracted from matured leaves of the buri palm with fiber that is durable and resistant to moisture
  • Famous products: hats, bags, baskets, memorabilia boxes, perfume tray, and other women
• Coir


  • Fibrous materials surrounding the fruit of the coconut tree
  • Indoor or outdoor fiber carpets, wall covering, doormat, trellises, and gep-textiles are some of the products made of the coconut coir fiber
• Nito


  • Plant belonging to the fern family that grows abundantly in the hinterlands of Mindanao
  • Bags, bread tray, landshade and decorative jars are the commonly created products out of nito
• Pandan


  • Tropical plant that is processed and transformed into splints that are being used as a raw materials
  • Baskets, hats, picture frames and bags are the known products made from this local materials
• Raffia


  • Fiber extracted from unopened buri leaf in three stages which is woven into fabrics or used as wall coverings, upholstery materials, folding doors and window hangings
  • Many products: hats, placements, folder, shoes, slippers, boxes, portfolio and ladies' bags, placemats, circular boxes, document boxes
• Rattan


  • Belongs to the palm family which can be high or low climbers, single stemmed or clustered rattan species
  • Baskets, picture frames, furniture and other novelty items, Zoya lounge chair, Valencia queen size bed, Rest divan, wall coverings, upholstery materials, folding doors and window hangings
• Tikiw


  • Large, erect, and aquatic or marshy herb plant, found in Central Luzon and Mindanao, abounds in freshwater swaps, and in newly opened rice land at low altitude
  • Baskets, hampers with lids, bags, rugs, carpets, placemats, jars and other decorative items
• Tikog


  • Belongs to sea grasses, a native reed plant used a raw material for mat weaving
  • Bags, decorative mats, hampers, newspaper racks, table mat, waste bin, tower candle holder, wall decore
• Ilongot


  • Jewelry (pearl readhombil beak, plants, metals)
• Ifugaos


  • Hagabi chair (narra)
• Blood Painting


  • Elito Circa (aka "Amangpintor")
• abaca

  it has a natural luster of colors ranging from pure white to ivory and dark brown
• the strong brown fiber is used to make furniture mats boxes beans display jars armchair and the famous cecilia dining table


  bakbak
• rattan


  one can see baskets picture frames furniture and other novelty items
• tikiw


  found in central luzon and mindanao it abounds in freshwater swaps and in newly opened rice land and low altitude