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schools of Arayat, Pampanga, have attempted to improve 

 the hat by using four-ply buri. Each ply is narrower than 

 the one below it and the effect is rather pleasing. 



Mats. — In all buri districts, mats are made from bleached 

 buri strips and are sold by the thousands in local and inter- 

 provincial trade. The colors are often too bright and not 

 well combined. The best buri mats are made on the island 

 of Romblon and are distinguished from other mats by their 

 "open-work" borders. Romblon schools have sent in to the 

 industrial museum of the Bureau of Education a number of 

 buri doilies of various shapes and designs which are rather 

 attractive. Buri mats are inferior to sabutan mats in 

 wearing qualities. 



Bayones. — Unbleached buri strips are used in making 

 "bayones," or sacks, employed as containers for sugar and 

 other products. Necessarily, they must be produced cheaply 

 and their making is not advisable except in the lower grades 

 of the public schools — and then more in the nature of a 

 class exercise. They are not very strong, but as bags of 

 this kind are usually intended for temporary use, cheapness 

 in price rather than strength, is the first consideration. 



Desk baskets. — The public schools in several provinces 

 are making desk baskets in which fine buri strips are knotted 

 around a lattice work of thin sticks of bamboo, rattan, or 

 other woody fiber. These baskets are decorated around the 

 rim with nito and will readily take the place of wire letter 

 trays used in offices. Such buri baskets are superior to those 

 made of wire in that they will neither scratch the table 

 nor rust. 



Hand bags. — A number of schools are making hand bags 

 in the over and under weave, hexagonal weave, or by knot- 

 ting fine buri strips around a foundation. One of these 

 bags from Bohol in the industrial museum of the Bureau 

 of Education, illustrating the over and under weave, has 

 elicited much favorable comment and demonstrated that 

 a good type of hand bag can be made of buri strips. 



Button and collar boxes. — The Mangyans of Mindoro 

 make very pretty baskets, hexagonal in weave, that can 

 be used for collars or small articles, in which buri, black 



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