Module 3

• Abaca: banana fiber; a natural luster with colors ranging from pure white to ivory and dark brown
• Bakbak: outermost covering or leaf sheath of the abaca stalk, which is used for making abaca ropes and mats
• Bamboo: used a raw material in creating many products
• Buntal: a cylindrically shaped fiber
• Buri: extracted from the matured leaves of the buri palm
• Coir: the fibrous material surrounding the fruit of the coconut tree
• Nito: a plant belonging to fern family that grows abundantly in the hinterlands of mindanao
• Pandan: a tropical plant, processed and transformed into splints that are being used as raw material
• Raffia: fiver extracted from unopened buri in 3 stages
• Rattan: the palm family
• Tikiw: a large, erects and aquatic or marshy herb plant
• Tikog: belongs to sea grasses. it is a native reed plant used as a raw material for mat weaving