Story Description

       Do you want to know where our useful furniture come from? And how it is made into a furniture with awesome designs. Well, this is your opportunity to know more information about it!!!

      This blog was made by the students from General Santos City High School to feature the processes in making furniture out of bamboo. Let us open the room full of bamboo! Once you explore this blog you can also feel that you are there in Palkan.

        Palkan is one of the barangays in Tupi, South Cotabato which is blessed with beautiful scenery. Behind this view, there is one thing that caused this barangay to be successful in business industry.

Seat back and relax! Enjoy viewing this blog! =)

Background of the Story

       This blog aims to focus on the processes involved in making bamboos into a wonderful furniture and how it helps the barangay of Palkan as well as the people living in it. Also this blog was made to inform everybody  that bamboo is not just an ordinary grass, but for the people there in Brgy. Palkan it serves as a Swaying Treasure.

       Bamboos are among the plants most widely used by humans. It is the  largest of the grasses, and has a species of over 1600. It is unique in that it is strong in both tension and compression. While tensile strength remains the same throughout the age of the bamboo plant, compressive strength increases as it gets older. 

       In the tropics they are used for constructing houses, rafts, bridges, and scaffolding. One good example of this is the project in China which became famous and fortunately won a prize at the Biennale of Venice 2003.

The bamboo house at the Commune by the wall, Badeling

    Split and flattened culms can also be used as flooring and interwoven to make baskets, mats, hats, fish traps, and containers for liquids. Paper is also made from bamboo pulp, and fishing rods, water pipes, musical instruments from other parts.

 

FLUTE

 

BASKET

 HAT