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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET IN INDUSTRIAL ARTS 6

QUARTER 3, WEEK 2

Enhancing and Decorating Bamboo, Wood, and Metal Products

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Learning Competency:
The learners
• identify the different market trends on product;
• enumerate the customer’s preference of products;
• classify the types/sources of innovative finishing materials; and
• apply the processes in enhancing/decorating finished products. (TLE6-
IA- Ob-3)
Context:

Market Trends on Products Made of Bamboo, Wood and Metal

One of the steps to ensure the success of the products is marketing. Product
marketing is the set of activities one should be aware in order to know more about the
products that made of bamboo, wood and metal.

Here are some activities to determine market trends on products.

1. Direct Marketing – through demonstrations, trade exhibits and other public

venues. This is popular activity being done by the producers to motivate
consumers or buyers about the products.
2. Advertising in Print Media – these activities are done through advertisements in
newspapers, magazines and flyers about the product.
3. Radio, Television and Internet Advertising- Modern ways of endorsing product.
4. Distributing Products via Transport System – Products reached the consumers
faster through the means of land, air and sea transportation spreading
promotion, feedbacks even in the farthest region of the country.

Customer’s Preference of Products

• Products are in the form of home furnishings, table tops, jewelry, decorative
accessories, home accents, kitchen and garden decors. Customers buying craft
vary generally from tourists, collectors, business people, artists or artisans,
people attending conferences and many others.
• To have marketable and saleable products, artisans/artists and manufacturers
must know their consumers and their preferences in terms of color, style, size,
and quantity. It is also helpful to know their interests and needs. They must be
creative, and adopt new design trends for their products to be competitive in the
market.
• Craft artisans and entrepreneurs must adopt new marketing strategies to reach
their consumers. Specific selling strategies to reach their consumers. Specific
selling strategies include focusing on customer service such as offering free
delivery, repair and retouch services, and special promotions. It is important
first to make a study of the business and the industry. Analysis of the strengths,

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weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, or the SWOT analysis maybe considered

when thinking of a business.

Types/Sources of Innovative Finishing Materials, Accessories, and Designs

Aside from conducting a survey for the latest trends and customers’ preferences of
finished products, you must also know the types or sources of innovative finishing
materials, accessories, and designs that you can apply to your products.

These materials are used to beautify, decorate, and improve the quality of finished
products.
• 1. Finishing materials that are used to smoothen the products before decorating.
Example varnish
• 2. Colored paper twines and ribbon cloth are used in decorating and wrapping
products.
• 3. Beads and charms are small accessories of different colors used to make
products attractive.
• 4. Abaca and sinamay fibers are paper-thin locally made materials used for
wrapping or packaging purposes.

Processes in Enhancing/Decorating Finished Products

There are processes and treatments done on some materials before making them
into articles.

1. Preserving and Treating Bamboos

There are various ways of treating bamboo to preserve its natural beauty. It is
called the resin-oil extraction method. It is done by either wet or dry process. In the wet
process, the bamboo is soaked overnight in a solution of 0.1% to 1.2% caustic soda or
carbonate of soda or boiled in this solution for 10-15 minutes. In the dry process,
bamboo poles are evenly heated over charcoal at a temperature of 49 C to 54 C for 20-
30 minutes.

2. Bleaching
Bleaching is the process of whitening or removing the color by sunlight exposure,
air ventilation or by the use of chemical solutions.

3. Dyeing Bamboo Poles and Splints

Dyeing is the process of applying color into the materials. The direct dyeing or
reactive dyeing method may be used. In direct dyeing, bamboo splints make sure of
vegetable dye. It is done by boiling water with dye and immersing the bamboo splints
until the desired color is achieved. They are dried under the sun. In reactive dyeing, the
following materials are used: 30% of dye; salt is 30 grams per liquid and fixing agent is
30 grams per liquid. The dye is dissolved in water and is diluted to the final volume. The
bamboo splints are soaked for10 minutes then salt is added and dyeing is continued for
an hour.

4. Pyrography
Pyrography is the process of burning designs of bamboo with hot wire. The
electric soldering iron is considered the best tool in pyrography.

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ACTIVITY 1
Directions: Match Column A with Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer.

ACTIVITY 2
Directions: Identify the types of innovative finishing materials, accessories and designs.

_________________1. It is used to smoothen the products before decorating.

_________________2. Paper-thin locally made materials used for wrapping or packaging
purposes.
_________________3. Small accessories of different colors used to make
products attractive.
_________________4. Used in decorating and wrapping products.

ACTIVITY 3
Directions: Arrange the jumbled letters of fundamental processes in handicrafts.

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