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1. LESSON 1: ARTS AND CRAFTS
OF THE ILOCOS REGION AND
THE CORDILLERA
ADMINISTRATIVE REGION (CAR)

2. _____1. paper cutting
_____2. weaving
_____3. painting
_____4. sculpture
_____5. wood curving

5. ILOCOS REGION 
Architecture

6. ILOCOS REGION
Vigan considered as the
“Intramuros of the North,”
retains the Spanish colonial
architecture along its narrow
and cobble-stoned streets
known as Calle Crisologo.

8. ILOCOS REGION
These old Spanish-type houses
have huge, high-pitched roofs,
large and rectangular living
rooms that are made of bricks,
lime, terracotta, hardwood
floors, and windows of Capiz
shells framed in wooden
window panels

9. ILOCOS REGION
Textile

11. ILOCOS REGION
Inabel is a hand weaving
technique of the Ilocanos
that is produced using
traditional wooden looms.
The different designs
represent different
meanings:

12. ILOCOS REGION
The dizzying “binakol”
weave represents the
waves of the sea. They
believe that this
design protects them
from bad spirits

14. ILOCOS REGION
The inabel designs are inspired
by natural elements: patterns
that depict different landforms,
the colors of flowers and
vegetation, plaid, zigzags,
animal patterns, the ocean
waves, or the glittering night
sky

15. ILOCOS REGION
Pottery

16. ILOCOS REGION
Burnay is an unglazed earthen
jar with small opening

17. ILOCOS REGION
It is used for storage for
water and rice grains and
as a container for salt,
brown sugar, basi (local
wine) and bagoong
(fermented fish)

18. ILOCOS REGION
The potter mix fine
gravel, sand and ashes
and fire the clay to
make the burnay
heavy and sturdy

19. ILOCOS REGION
The potter mix fine
gravel, sand and ashes
and fire the clay to
make the burnay
heavy and sturdy

20. ILOCOS REGION
The designs are
simple. Sometimes,
cured patterns can be
found around the
shoulder of the jars.

21. ILOCOS REGION
They also prick the
jar with a stick while
it is still soft to make
the surface more
interesting.

23. KALINGA
Textile

24. KALINGA
The natives of Kalinga are
skilled weavers. One of their
finest products is their
textile, which is
characterized by red stripes,
and white, yellow, and black
geometrical patterns

25. KALINGA
The southern Kalinga
women wear the wrap-
around skirt or tapis called
kain, which reaches below
the knee. It is worn below
abdomen, and when they
walk, one of the thighs is

26. KALINGA
The northern Kalinga wears
saya, an ordinary woman’s
skirt covering the body from
waist to feet

28. KALINGA
The colors used in their
textile have cultural
meanings: red signifies
bravery: black is for the soil
of land: white is for the
flowers of the coffee trees;
yellow for the sand; and

29. KALINGA
Basketry

30. KALINGA
The basketry of the Kalinga
shows their fine
craftmanship. The labba is a
bowl-shaped basket made
from rattan, with sizes that
vary from 20 to 150 cm in
diameter

32. KALINGA
Tattooing

33. KALINGA
Tattooing is another form
of art of the Kalinga.
Because it usually covers
the chest and the arms, it
maybe considered as
clothing and decoration.

34. KALINGA
It also signifies a rite of
passage from youth to
adulthood, a mark of
heroism, and bravery and
one’s status in the
community. The design
consists of geometric

35. KALINGA
Wang-Od is the last
“mambabatok” or traditional
Kalinga tattoo artist. She
uses a mixture of charcoal
and water that is tapped
onto the skin through a
thorn end.

36. KALINGA
The painful tattoo
technique is said to be a
thousand years old and
can only be passed on
through lineage.

37. KALINGA
It is believed that if
someone outside of
the bloodline does the
tattoo, it will get
infected.

38. KALINGA
In order to preserve
the art form, she is
now training some of
her relatives to follow
her mark.

40. WANG - OD

41. IFUGAO
Sculpture

42. Ifugao
The term Ifugao means
“natives of the
Cordillera”

43. IFUGAO
Sculpture

44. Ifugao
The bul’ul is a wooden
sculpture that
represents the rice
granary spirits.

45. Ifugao
It is used in rituals that
are performed to call
the ancestors to
protect their rice fields
from pestilence and to
ask for an abundant

46. Ifugao
It is a carved-wooden human
figure with simplified forms.
These are dipped in the
blood of pigs during a ritual
called tunod, which means
“planting the seedling in the
soil.”

47. Ifugao
The bul’ul is usually
made of narra, which
signifies wealth,
happiness, and well-
being to the Ifugao

48. Bul’ul

49. IFUGAO
Amulets

50. Ifugao
The amulets of the Ifugaos
are called lingling-o or
dinumug. These are made
from jade, gold, bronze,
stone and other materials.
These are fertility symbols
worn around neck

52. MOUNTAIN PROVINCE
Textile

53. Mountain Province
Figures in the lubid: eye,
man lizard, star, variation,
snake, butterfly, shield,
spear, and flower. All the
figures, except for the
flower , are woven into the
garment. The flower is

54. eye, man lizard, star,
variation, snake, butterfly,
shield, spear, and flower.

55. MOUNTAIN PROVINCE
Tattoos

57. Mountain Province
Close examination of the
mummies reveals that they
have body tattoos, which is
a form of art practiced by
most of the cultural
communities from the
Philippines

58. Mountain Province
The body tattoos that adorn
the Kabayan mummies are
similar to the patterns
found in their textiles

59. Mountain Province
The province is also
known for their burial
cloth, kadangyan,
woven by female
elders

61. Bontoc Mountain
Province
The people of Bontoc
are also skilled
weavers. They weave
different textiles from
blankets to clothing

62. Bontoc Mountain
Province
The men traditionally attire
is called wanes. The woven
use a short and narrow
wrap-around skirt called
lupid, which extends from
the navel to the knees, and
has a side opening

64. Bontoc Mountain
Province
The motifs of the Bondoc
include geometric shapes of
human, lizard, mountains,
rains, and flowers, and other
forms of plants, animal and
landforms found in their
everyday surrounding.

65. Bontoc Mountain
ProvinceMarried women of Bontoc and
Kankanay in the Northern
Cordillera wear a type of belt
called ginaspalawanes. These
are adorned with designs
composed of continuous
zigzag patterns woven in
doubled faced with braided

67. Bontoc Mountain
ProvinceThe natives of Bontoc create
their textile patterns through
the ikat, a weaving method. It is
a process of tying and dyeing
the threads to prepare the
patterns before they are woven
into the textile

68. Abra
The Tingguians weave textiles for
clothes and blankets. They are
noted for their white textiles with
horizontal stripes found in the
edges (like those in the bankudo
or wrap around skirt) or vertical
stripes in the center (like those
found in the balwasi or female
blouse)