Locals Teach me Pandan Weaving Philippines | I was Amazed! 🇵🇭
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- Locals Teach me Pandan Weaving Philippines | I was Amazed! 🇵🇭
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Pandan weaving is a traditional craft, characterized by the creation of intricate patterns and designs using the leaves from a pandan plant/tree.
The pandan plant, a tropical species, is renowned for its long, slender, and aromatic leaves that possess a robust and pliable nature, making them the perfect material for weaving. Pandan weaving techniques are often handed down through generations, resulting in a diverse range of functional and decorative handicrafts. Baskets, mats, bags, hats, and including home decor items.
This traditional art form not only preserves the cultural heritage but also offers a sustainable livelihood for local artisans and is also environmentally friendly as the leaves are biodegradable.
The joy on the girl’s face when you gave her the 50pssos bill is priceless. Made me smile.😊
I think road trips make your channel grow more faster than just sitting in BGC. it's more interesting to see foreigners interacting with locals 💗
You know locals love to see foreigners who know how to interact and connect with them. You make them happy. Always watching your vlogs from USA.
Click Share > Copy link and post everywhere! Let's get this man to a 100k!
One of your best videos. Random experiences with the beautiful people of the Philippines.❤
I had a blast watching this episode ! The women of Laguna are so joyful with the simple handicrafts that they are making. Continue to do these interactions with the local people Mergim. Thats what makes vloggers endearing to their viewers. This is a classic !
Filipinos have made pandan weaving for centuries😉
These are the videos that I love the interaction with the locals and the children so happy you should do more traveling around like this it’s been awesome watching it every episode I look forward to
So bloody cute going inside the big basket. Bless your friendly heart always. Take care!
What I find amusing about this, is that Mergim makes an itinerary but sort of wings it to ride around the different areas/regions, and the best parts that come out of it are organic.
Omg! What a Filipino!!! Very accommodating, hospitality, pure heart and smiles, so kind people!
I have never seen that huge pressing machine that is part of the basket weaving process. As a Filipino, i shall visit and buy baskets to support the locals. Thanks for sharing this!
So nice to see you interacting with the locals and how happy they were… amazing video God bless and more power to you
What a beautiful country and experience. Your joy was contagious and I smiled along with you during todays entire Vlog 😊
His a good dude! That's why his easy to get along with. Keep supporting his channel and share to increase his subs. Thank you all.😊
He was close to Villa Escudero where he can see plenty of history and interesting things about the Philippines.
You made their day chairman,.
MERGIM IS ONE OF THE BEST VLOGGERS THAT I CAN SEE
Best way to travel is to interact with people. Like it when you do it. Keep your videos flowing. I am enjoying it 😊
Wow...MerGim...you are in our Place..Luisiana,Laguna which is celebrating PandanFestival April 1-10.....I feel so glad that reached our place Watching you here in Manila....wow
Oh my loving this content , and the locals adore you.
Not expected basket making. Nice content. The locals are very accommodating..
They can actually customized for you a pandan backpack, I've seen one of those before and your basket you can use it as magazine basket for display on your condo living room. 😊
So nice to see how you make locals happy! Salamat! 💙
20 pesos, here in the US it will be like 10 $. Usually each barangay has a specialty product. Finding their distinct goods is great content.
Amazing videos, Mergim! I never expected anyone to do a vlog of Laguna and its intrinsic beauty -- brings a lot of childhood memories! Thank you, wishing you always the best of the Philippines because you are an amazing vlogger!
In your travels Mergim you see how friendly the Filipinos are
Awesome fun with pandan weavers. You will get lots of subscribers this way.
What an amazing video Mergim! This might be one of our most favorite among your Tagaytay and Laguna adventure. When you interact with the locals and you make them laugh, we laugh too! It’s so entertaining to watch. Plus, you inside the giant basket was hilarious 😂. Excellent job Merg! That’s why we continue to share it with friends and family 😊.
After that Luisiana...Cavinti..Pagsanjan..Lumban..with Caliraya on top...Longos...Pakil..Pangil .............going to Taguig....what a nice Place to Travel...good scenery MerGim.....ingat..Salamat
Mergim they had so much fun with yo 💕
Nice video featuring local weavers,. You should have been visited PAETE Laguna, before going back to BGC, the carving capital of the Philippines. There are lots of display along the road side, so you can help them showcasing their world class product.. I think that would be a nice contents showcasing Filipino products, and going to be more exciting.
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Very enjoyable video as always! Mergim had somehow discovered Kulas' (Becoming Filipino) vlogging sucess secret. Cheers!
Your interactions with these people are very entertaining.
Awesome. I kept on smiling watching you interacting with locals...i think you should learn more tagalog words.😂 ... That basket can be used as a laundry basket or grocery bag 🛍️😁
The art of Pandan Basket Weaving, it's amazing! You should also visit Paete, because I believe that town is known for wooden sculptures. 👍
That was epic and fun. These folks will never forget your visit
im smiling the entire time watching this video...
5:27 She said they don't usually sell them. They're gonna use them to store woven palm branches (palaspas) which is usually distributed for Palm Sunday mass.
As always you really give us your viewers a much meaningful vlog... My fellow filipino please support mergim his one of a kind he deserve a million subscribers .... The way he inter act our local is very natural ...
Mergim you should go to Angeles City near Clark and watch the Flagellant on during Thursday and Good Friday so you will see something different and see how Filipinos spend their Easter. Lots carrying the cross going to the church or chapel any flagellant that have their back cut with razor blades and beat it.
Very happy to see this. I know when I traveled there, I learned so much for the many locals. Keep in touch with them at every stop and your trips will be some much more memorable.
Beautiful countryside ❤
Mergim -- Wonderful, wonderful moments. So glad that being hungry and the setting sun didn't stop you from stopping and getting a brand new bag.
You look so cute inside that Giant Pandan Basket.... good vibes man
This is real immersion.. We love these unique kind of stories. Why not stay a few days and try or live like a Pinoy farmer or fisherman? Wake up at 4am, tend to the animals for a day, chop wood and cook Pinoy food that you harvested or caught. That'll be most exciting!
Nice weaving
AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! WHEN I WAS IN OUR FARM AS A CHILD, I LEARNED TO WEAVE A BALL MADE OF COCONUT LEAVES! YES, WEAVING IS A FILIPINO CULTURE SKILL OF OLD. AM GLAD ITS STILL AROUND. THAT BASKET WAS SO BIG! YOU CAN EVEN GET INSIDE HAHAHAHAHAAAAA! LAGUNA IS WONDERFUL, GLAD YOU ENJOY!
This is getting to be very interesting...
Mergim you should try bulacan province next. Very excellent roadtrip conditions. Mountain ranges, waterfalls, local cuisines you name it!
I would like to see mergim in open pet markets in bulacan.
Our old bed use pandan bedsheet, nice to sleep on it during hot days.
it is the same pandan used in making buco pandan dessert. Cant stop laughing when the locals asked you to go inside the huge basket :D and you obliged. btw that is called a bayong, what our grand parents used when going to the market back in the day. it was also used by makapili during the japanese war.
Enjoying your travels. Watching from Michigan.
Nice one support local product❤❤❤
So happy to see you are so comfy with local Filipinos now, M! Best regard from SoCal!
The aunties are very entertaining😊
That pandan bag is so cheap . I would have bought as well cause you can’t find that in many places in Manila and If you find it , it will be more expensive
too many good things about Filipinos. the humility, the hospitality, the joy, the laugh, the simplicity, the effort to communicate in English (as long as you're a foreigner). these great simple traits makes one proud a Filipino. 😍
05:27 "Hindi namin 'to pinagbibili, paglalagyan namin' to ng palaspas".
Translation : "We are not selling these, we will be using them to contain Easter Sunday palm fronds"
"palaspas" are Easter Sunday palm fronds.
On your next visit to Majayjay Laguna please visit the centuries old Saint Gregory Church it's near Diritiwan falls. ☺😅
I'm very thrilled to see you getting a taste of the local customs and interacting with the people.
Good day sir mergin, pandan leaves is one of many uses of the Filipinos specially going to market to buy all things they called it BAYONG, injoy your ride road trip, if you want to come again you learn more about the beauty of LAGUNA and also beautiful places and also native foods and delicacies like original buko pie 🥧 it comes there, keep up your adventure trip and keep safe and good health 💖💯💪 GOD BLESS PO 💖💯🙏💪
Carefull for driving mergin 👍🙂🙏
This is a type of pandan leaves that are used for weaving. Another came from the same family of pandan leaves but is used for food flavoring and aromatics. Those are the leaves they use to flavor buko-pandan desserts and drinks. Also, they're a big part of Southeast Asian cuisine, particularly Philippines, thai & indo.
Your vlogs are quite unique, enjoyable and informative giving viewers an entertaining vicarious experience as your 'companion armchair travellers'. Well done, and here's to a steady flow of creative and worthwhile vlogs from your channel. Hope you discover more rare gems from off the beaten tracks, and give them bob-standard vloggers, who feature only self-serving and stale content, a run for their money. As you do, enjoy your discoveries and keep your feet on terra firma.
Mergim, I think you can start helping these hardworking ladies to invest in this handcraft bag " bayong" as we call it locally. And export it to the world. Also you can help our country local products. I hope you will think about it and study the pros and cons. Thank you for going around our country and showing the world how beautiful the Philippines 🇵🇭 is. Take care and best of luck to your vlogging business. More Fun in the Philippines!
Wholefoods would love to have these as their official grocery bags, very green and organic. Melgim create a video presentation on how this would help the environment and the positive economic impact this would bring to rural remote villages in developing countries, and sent it to the WA head office, big potential! You can thank me later, and you're welcome..👍
Hopefully your video attract some buyer to buy pandan basket. It was one of the tradional crarfmanship that being forgoten in some areas. Nowadays very few women are still doing it.
You're so lucky to be touring so many parts of the country 💜🧡💙
Mornin chairman
What a very cute interaction with the local 'manangs" or old women of the town
Or as the Chinese would refer to them as "aunties "
This is what I always say. Mergim can turn things more interesting. Such a natural.
Props to you in stopping by and being interested in their craft and purchasing an item!
Pandan or basket weaving is easy skill for locals
Thanks for featuring philippines..God bless
Wow! That weaving art is already really a lost language especially for us people living in the city at Metro Manila. I wish this could still be passed on to the next generation as a cultural inheritance. Thank you for vlogging this as a way of reintroduction to the said art, Mergim! You rock! Take care on your way home. ^_^
Nice vlog. Many foreigners will be interested to see local handicraft being made.
Another amazing view is Quezon province Mergim
Wow you're enjoying the friendliest people of the province! Thanks for sharing Mergim! I had a good time watching you guys!
You have made a very informative and fun travel escapades on your vlogs. More Power! 👍❣️
Did you know there's a way from laguna going to east side (tanay/antipolo area), you can access that road goin back to manila as well
That is a very nice pandan eco-basket that you can use when you travel. It’s multi-purpose for food, fruits, for your jacket, rain coat or anything you need when you’re running around on the road.
one of the happiest vlogs you have made....so much admiration for your spontaneous vlogs
This is very enjoying to watch. Not really common with current foreign vloggers
I really love your content brother.
I'm not sure if somebody has already commented but I heard a woman said that those big baskets will be used for (transporting) Palaspas (or decorated/woven palm/coconut leaves for the celebration of Palm Sunday). The basket you bought is locally called "bayong" (our market bag before plastic was introduced).
Yes introduction of plastic was the downfall of pandan industry
Nice to see you jammin' with the locals and showcase what the Philippine countryside has to offer. You can use that basket to put in your groceries.
You need to see the famous wood carvers of Paete, Laguna. It is only few kilometers from this place.
You can visit Liliw, or Quezon
You can use the basket to put some light groceries maybe .. not sure if the handle could use heavy items
Indeed, it’s really more fun in the Philippines 😀
You have a unique way of discovering interesting content, not just entertainment purposes but also discovering local talents. Try to discover more hidden local talents that are underrated, and hopefully, you will get more subscribers in your channel. Thanks for your dedication.
Always Keep safe alway mirgim godbless
You must visit Pagsanjan falls nex time that rapid boat ride is a must you surely love it
Another great find with the weaving content!
Your curiosity is genuine and people sense that. Hence their open joy interacting with you. Pandan is also used as a food flavoring. Wash and line the bottom of your rice cooker with pandan leaves then cook rice. The aroma of your rice is like vanilla but nuttier. Rice can also be wrapped in pandan leaves. Pandan extract is also used for flavoring pastries and cakes.
I am proud and grew up in that place Luisiana Laguna. That big pandan bag or deban. Weave as high as 5ft or higher. Used as farmers staple stockfile of newly harvested rice. Cause that leaves are sturdy than simply using sacks. That pandan leaves is a blessing from God. It keeps growing even no one will takes care. It is an organic long leaves. No need to fertilize.
This is one source of livelihood in that province. When we are a student from elementary to High school. If you weave at least 2 to 5 pandan bags after school. Tomorrow you will have penny as your school allowance. Nobody's asking money on their parents. You saw what you reap even at younger age.
Glad to see you vlog inpassing my hometown. And see your interest watching ilohan (boulders of rock and huge log) and woman weaving pandan bags. Thank you for seeing our simple living. Self-sufficient. You work to eat. You eat to live. Simple as that. My respect. 😘
OMG in Manila the price of it is reasonably high because it's handcrafted but Php 20? Wow!!!
Hi Mergim, March - April (sometimes until May) are the best months to have a road trip because it's the driest season of PH. I suggest you take advantage of these dry months and continue traveling around the country (go north to Vigan or something) 😁 Have fun!
PS: That pandan basket looks sooo cute in your motorcycle!
Enjoying your road trip…watching here from Maine, U.S.A at the moment😃
Locals in Ph are very friendly, really😘 Enjoy your vacay… Mabuhay!
Just so Happy to see you enjoy your side trips outside of Metro Manila....and how different it is in the Provinces....
WoW!! Nice to watch basket weaving pandan leaves!! So organic❤️
You nailed it.
Wow amazing and beautiful 😭❤️