Buntal Fiber Weaving in the Philippines

______ barked

______ meowed

Local materials in contemporary arts: Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions ______

Materials have different qualities: they can be smooth or rough; hard or soft; heavy or light; fragile or ______

______ can create works that are deeply rooted in the traditions and natural resources of a specific region

Abaca belongs to the ______ family

Buri is the largest palm endemic in the Philippines. The leaves and rachis (stem) of it are widely used in ______.

Buntal is the natural and organic fiber from large leaves of abundant palm (buri) trees that grown sustainably in the Philippines. It is used in creating ______.

Coconut Tree is one of the most important crops in the Philippines with the country being the second largest coconut producer in the world. Coir is a natural fiber extracted from the outer husk of ______.

Puni is a tagalog term which means to beautify or decorate with the use of ______ leaf.

Puni is Bulakenyo’s way of decorating using fronds folding of leaf. It can be categorized according to their ______.

Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions often use local materials like ______ and coconut fiber.

Nito (Agsam) belongs to the __________ fern family

Nitong Puti and Nitong Pula are types of __________

Pandan is processed into splints and used as raw materials for various applications such as cosmetics, aesthetic/ornamental plants, food ingredients, and __________

Rattan is a naturally renewable palm used for furniture, handicrafts, and building material among __________

Tikog is a special reed grass that grows in swampy areas along ricefields and has solid, jointless, and usually triangular __________

Dethroning, Stripping, Air and Sun Drying, and Dyeing are processes involved in working with __________

Pineapple leaves are used to produce multiple products ranging from clothes to furniture through the extraction of fibers from its ______

Embroidery, well known in Batangas and Laguna, involves techniques like stamping, pagbuburda, pagbabakbak, and ______

Taka, a papier-mâché craft originating in Paete, Laguna, is made using a carved wooden sculpture as a ______

Pabalat Pastillas Wrapper Cutting Art (Borlas de Pastillas) is a form of papercutting art originating in the province of ______

In a metaphorical level, Pabalat, which involves paper cutouts, connotes the state-of-the-art practice where it cuts through some cultural and societal ______

Paper, a versatile material, is used to produce a quality folk art through various techniques like soaking in water, hand-scrapping, sun drying, and ______

Abaca is extracted from the leaf sheath around the trunk of the abaca plant. It is also known as Manila ______.

Bakbak or Balakbak is the outermost covering or leaf sheath of abaca stalk. It is a flat thick durable sheath used as twine or braided material. This process involves separating the leaf sheath from the actual abaca plant, soaking it in water, manual stripping, and sun drying. Bakbak or Balakbak is also known as ______.

Bamboo is a very fast-growing, renewable, and easy-to-grow tall treelike grass. It is a raw material utilized in creating many products. Another term for bamboo arches elaborately designed with kayas is ______.

Singkabans, elaborately designed bamboo arches, are artfully made entrances used during fiestas and other important events in Bulacan, particularly in old towns of Hagonoy and Malolos. Bamboo is a very fast-growing, renewable, and easy-to-grow tall treelike grass. Bamboo is a raw material utilized in creating many products. Singkaban is a local term for bamboo arches elaborately designed with ______.

Abaca, also known as Manila Hemp, is extracted from the leaf sheath around the trunk of the abaca plant. Abaca is a raw material utilized in creating many products. To extract Abaca, the process involves Tuxying or Stripping, extracting, drying, bundling, knotting, and sun drying. Another term for the outermost covering or leaf sheath of abaca stalk is Bakbak or ______.

Bamboo, a very fast-growing, renewable, and easy-to-grow tall treelike grass, is a raw material utilized in creating many products. Singkaban, a local term for bamboo arches elaborately designed with kayas, are artfully made entrances used during fiestas and other important events in Bulacan, particularly in old towns of Hagonoy and Malolos. Bamboo is a raw material utilized in creating many products. Bamboo is a very fast-growing, renewable, and easy-to-grow tall treelike ______.