Dreams, Souls, and

Space
TEXTILE
ART
Philippine
Textile Art
Tradition
Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)
Woven Fabrics
Traditionally, weaving is done for the family’s
needs, but it is now only done for commercial
purposes.

Normally, it’s the women who weave, the

men, on the other hand, make the weaving
instruments such as the loom sticks, the
spindle, the apparatus for fluffing, skeining,
and windling.
 Kalinga blankets have several pieces.

Adolna – the middle pieces, or the body of

the blanket

Balingbing – the side pieces

Talungtung – a narrow band with fringes

serves as borders
 TYPES OF KALINGA BLANKETS

Gamong – for the dead

Hape – for the wealthy

Kintog – used to exchange for pigs but now

known as oban and used for carrying
babies
 WANNO
Traditional Ifugao wear
for men, also known as
G-string
TYPES OF KIANGAN
IFUGAO’S G-STRINGS

INFRA – the ones without designs

BINUHLAN – with large red stripe called habak in the
middle
TINANNONG – color white and known as the poor
man’s G-string
PINIWAAN NILIHHA – richer version of the binuhlan
PINIWA – same as piniwaan nilihha except that the
design was made through dyeing
 Ilocos Region
Woven Fabrics
 ABEL
Most famous textile
from the Ilocos region,
specifically from Vigan
 Binakul
Most recognizable
pattern of abel
 Region IV-A Aurora Province
Sabutan-Woven Fabrics
 Sabutan
Material used in
making hats in
Aurora
Region IV-B MIMAROPA
Palawan Fabrics
 Amumutina Grass
Material used in weaving in
Palawan that can only be
found in the province
 Mindanao Region
Weaving Styles
 T’nalak
is a ritual textile connected to the T’boli
spirituality and cosmonology. A dreamweaver
is said to be anointed by the weaving deity Fu
Dalo
 Dagmay-an
Textile from Mandaya of Davao Oriental. It is
made from mud-dyeing technique believed to be
the only one existing in the Philippines. It is
commonly worn as women’s skirts but also used to
wrap the dead.
 Pisyabit
It is the traditional cloth tapestry worn as head
scarf by the Tausugs of Sulu, usually as a sign of
rank.
 Seputangan
Worn by women around their waist or as a head
cloth by the Yakan of Basilan and Sulu. It is
patterned after the colors of the rainbow
Philippine
Folk
Architecture
Bahay Kubo
(Kamalig,
Nipa Hut)
 The term kubo came from the Spanish word
cubo which means cube. The Bahay Kubo
exemplifies the Filipino concept of shared
spaces and limited privacy. It has no divisions
for rooms, designed for family living and
activities.
Ifugao House
(Bale’)
 The houses are harmoniously located near the
rice terraces. This one-room house is like a
pyramid resting on four posts while the interior
space is enclosed by slanting walls and ceiling
that appears to be spherical.
The Bale’ has three functional levels: the ground
floor, the second level for the living quarters,
and the third level, which is used as the granary.
The ground level posts have wooden discs called
oliang to prevent rats from entering the house.
Batanes
House
Most of Ivatan houses are built with limestones
walls, reed, and cogon roofs strong enough to
withstand the numerous typhoons and
earthquakes that visit the area, on average, 8
times in a year.
Maranao
House
 A torogan, which literally means “a place to
sleep” is the house of the elite members of the
Maranao tribe in Lanao del Sur. As the house of
the datu or sultan, it is a symbol of status and
leadership. It is placed above the ground by
columns cut from trees with huge widths. It has
no division and appears like a huge hall. It has
elaborate engravings of the Maranao design
system called okir. A torogan is not without the
Sarimanok design.
The Lean-to
 This is a portable house built by the early Aetas
or Negritos that suited their nomadic lifestyle. It
is constructed along the principle of tripod using
strong, light branches and palm fronds. It is a
portable and disposable shelter.
Badjao
Houseboat
 The houseboats of Badjao, sea gypsies of the
Philippines, cruise along the islands in the Sulu
archipelago. These range from 12-60 feet long
but not more than 6 feet wide.
Higaonon
Tree House
In Agusan and Misamis Oriental, the Higaonon
built their tree houses of lashed sapling nipa or
cogon grass, split bamboo, rattan, and bark of
trees.
THE ART OF
OKIR /
UKKIL
It is the term for geometric and flowing designs
(often based on an elaborate leaf-and-vine
pattern) and folk motifs that can be usually
found in Maranao and Muslim-influenced
artwork in Mindanao, especially in the Sulu
Peninsula.