NATIVE BAGS
Pandan leaves, a palm-like shrubs
have a gofragrance. Some people used the syrup of pandan as a flavoring for
sweet delicacies and use in rice to have an aromatic flavoring. Pandan leaves
are also used in handicrafts especially in weaving. The leaves are cut and
dried under the sun. The weavers used it as a major material in making native
products like mats, hats and bags. It is very useful in people’s way of income
especially to those who are very creative.
One of the popular products
of Brgy. Calaya, Nueva Valencia Guimaras is a bag made of pandan and pineapple
leaves. It takes a long process to finish a bag. The leaves are dried and
sliced in fine and thin strips and sorted for further processing; after that
the leaves are rolled into pandan ropes. They put dyes on pandan leaves in
order to be colorful. Thereare different persons who make the bags. One person weaves
the bottom of the bag and another one weaves the body of the bag. The lining
inside the bag was made also by the other person. It was also varnished in order to look
presentable and elegant one. Weaving a bag is the source of income of some
people who lives in Calaya. They are the
ones who produce native bags in Boracay Island and many of their finished
products are sent abroad. A bag made of pandan leaves is durable.
Pandan leaves are very
important and helpful. It is just not good in flavorings for cooking but also
for making such handicrafts.
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