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A baníg (pronounced buh-NIG) is a traditional handwoven mat of the Philippines predominantly used as a sleeping mat or a floor mat. Depending on the region of the Philippines, the mat is made of buri [1] , pandanus or reed leaves. The leaves are dried, usually dyed, then cut into strips and woven into mats, which may be plain or intricate.
Estelita Bantilan's famous Igem Silel - Blaan Schools of Living Traditions sleeping mat weaving and placemat are made of sago palm, buri palm or Romblon (Pandanus utilis) leaves colorizing with natural dyes Gmelina arborea (Kumil) or turmeric ‘lageh’ Sanbangkil roots for yellow, knalum bark for black and annatto seeds for orange.
The term flong was introduced no later than 1862 to refer to paper-based molds, also called a stereotype matrix (or mat, for short), which were in use no later than the early 1850s. [1] These molds may have been made through the papier-mâché wet process, which involves macerating paper, though contemporary writers suggest that was impractical ...
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Mats have been woven in Cambodia since Angkorian times, as evidenced by carvings on the bas-relief of Angkor Wat.. When the French missionary Charles-Émile Bouillevaux, after being the first Frenchmen to discover Angkor Wat, traveled to the Eastern bank of the Mekong and encountered the Bunong people, he considered it an honour to be invited to sit on a Cambodian mat.
Mattes are used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image. Usually, mattes are used to combine a foreground image (e.g. actors on a set) with a background image (e.g. a scenic vista or a starfield with planets). In this case, the matte is the background painting.
A place mat or serving mat is a flat piece of fabric or other type of material used on a table at the points at which dishes and plates will be located during a meal. One of the common purposes of such mats is to provide a thermal and physical barrier between that which is placed on the table, and the table itself—for instance, to stop hot ...
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