Philippine Hand Fan: "Pamaypay"

This "pamaypay," Tagalog for fan, is made from the dried stalks and fronds of the buri palm. Such heart-shaped fans are often called buri fans.

Typically, the middle of buri fans are made stiff and sturdy by close weaves that stretch to a more loose type of weave, called "sawali", which make use of wider buri strips and that make the sides of buri fans slightly bendable. They are edged with a braid-like weave and completed with a loop-like handle made of the stalks of the buri leaves that is joined at the main peg of the fan.

Buri is largest palm in the Philippines where they can reach more than 120 feet in height and their trunk can grow to as much as five feet in diameter. They have large, fan-shaped leaves that measure up to nine feet in length.
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