This document provides an overview of folk arts from different regions in the Philippines, summarizing key art forms, crafts, textiles, and cultural traditions. It describes motifs, looms, dyes, and other techniques used in weaving fabrics like inabel cotton from Ilocos and sinisiwan cloth from Bontoc. Jewelry, headgear, belts, and other accessories worn by ethnic groups are outlined. Distinctive festivals, dances, costumes, masks, and decorations celebrated in regions such as Quezon, Pampanga, Rizal, and Palawan are highlighted. The folk arts reflect the traditions and aesthetics of the Philippines' diverse cultural communities.

1. FOLK ARTS
-art originating among the
common people of a nation or
region and usually reflecting
their traditional culture

2. FOLK ARTS & DESIGN FROM
LUZON
MOTIF-a repeated pattern or theme.
TEXTILE- refer to a cloth that involves
weaving or making cloth using
natural or artificial threads or fibers.

3. FOLK ARTS- expressions of
community
in their crafts that are usually
made for its functional purpose
AESTHETICS- is a science of judging
beauty
DYE-are coloring materials that are
made of natural or synthetic
pigments for coloring.
LOOM WEAVING-process of weaving
using a loom-a device use to
weave a cloth

4. ILOCOS REGION
ARTS & CULTURE
1.
INABEL
a fabric
made of
cotton
threads are
made from
the sap of
black plum
called
sagat

5. PRODUCTS MADE FROM THE FABRIC
blankets, bags
camisa-chino, bed
linens
PANAGABEL- the
oldest Ilocano
weaving tradition
loom weaving
ingredients:
tilar, sinulid
&pasensya

6. IFUGAO
LINGLING-O or DINUMUG
-bronze amulets worn around the
neck by the Ifugaos which are
fertility symbols

7. MOUNTAIN PROVINCE
-known for its
hanging coffins
and mummified
bodies
-kadangyan burial
cloth
-tattoo art is part
of clothing and
considered as
decoration

8. Tattoo-signifies a rite of passage from youth to
adult life, heroism, status in the community and
bravery.
Siniwsiwan-cloth
fabric of
Bontoc used
for blanket
&clothing
-used for wanes or
men’s G-string,
Get up or Lufid for
women as wrap
around

9. Ginaspala wanes-worn by married
women of Bontoc and Kankana-y
with inawin designs composed of
continous zigzag pattern.
Bobo- used to catch fish in the
river.
Suklang-used by men for their
matches, tobacco and beetle nut
for chewing.

10. Ikat-the Ifugao’s loincloth an
Indonesian term meaning to bind
together.
-an important part of dowry in
many culture.

11. BATANES
Ivatans- are the people living in
Batanes group of Islands
Vakul-a head gear worn by women,
used to protect them from the heat
of the sun & during rainy season

12. -made from VUYAVUY PALM-a plant
similar to coconut
NUEVA VISCAYA
Gaddangs- are known for their clothing
&accessories with yellow, white, red &
black bead
Bakwat-a belt used by mothers after giving
birth, made of white with beads and pattern
of rivers and mountains with beadworks on
the central portion of the cloth

13. BULACAN
-regarded as the center for canon-making,
known for its fire cracker industry
Singkaban-the local term for bamboo arches
elaborately designed with kayas
Puni/Poni-a decoration during fiestas and
special occasions made from young coconut
leaves.

14. PAMPANGA
-known for its lanterns or parol
Patupat- delicacy from Pampanga made from
coconut leaves as wrappers
LAGUNA
-the home province of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the
Wood Carving Capital of the Philippines
Barong Tagalog-famous in Lumban, carefully
woven by hands.

15. Taka-a paper mache
Kayas-type of art made by
scrapping the softwood thriving in
Sierra Madre Mountain

16. RIZAL PROVINCE
-home of Carlos
Francisco for
painting &Lucio
San Pedro for
music
-known for Higantes Festival-conceptualized
in 1980’s by
Perdigon Vocalan
Higantes-big paper mache of human
figures to air sentiments about the
Spanish hacienderous

17. CAVITE& TAAL, BATANGAS
-most populous
province in the
country, known
for its Tinis in
Kawit
celebrated
during
Christmas
Karakol-a dance
during fiesta
celabration
Lutrina/Santacruzan
For the farmers
Sapin-sapin- a type
of delicacy made
from grounded
glutinous rice,
tilbok, putok, puto

18. TAAL
founded by
Datu
Balensuela &
Datu Dumangsil-two
of the ten
Bornean
castaway datus
-pinya fabric-made from the
fibers of pineapple, woven into a
costly fabric for barong, wedding
gowns and formal attires.
Balisong-a type of knife that can be
folded like fan,also known as
butterfly knife

19. QUEZON
-famous for its
Pahiyas
festival every
May in honor to
San Isidro
Labrador-the
patron saint of
the farmers
-kiping decors
made from
glutinous rice
thinly coated on a
special leaves &
cooked over a low
fire

20. BICOL REGION
-known for its basket, bags,
slippers, coin purses &
other crafts that are made
from abacca & rafia fibers

21. PALAWAN
-countr y’s last frontier,
longest underground river in
the world(Puerto Princessa
Underground River), largest
marine habitat(Tubbataha
Reef)

22. Manungul jar-one of the precious
artifact in the Philippines
-serves as container for
secondary burial, found in the
northern part of Palawan
Salugin-traditional Tagbanua
attire made from pounded bark
of trees

23. Ambalan-a loin cloth and rattan
waistband worn by men