The document summarizes arts and crafts from different regions in the Philippines, including textiles, pottery, basketry, woodcarving, and more. Some highlights include: 1) Ilocos Region is known for abel textiles produced on wooden looms, burnay earthen jars for storage, and Calle Crisologo architecture made of indigenous materials. 2) Cordillera Region's Kalinga province has distinctive textiles featuring geometric patterns representing natural elements, and labba rattan baskets. 3) Mountain Province is home to Tingguian textiles for clothing and blankets. 4) Batanes has unique limestone and cogon grass houses to

1. ARTS AND CRAFT
OF LUZON
(HIGHLANDS AND
LOWLANDS)

2. ILOCOS REGION
AND CORDILLERA
ADMINISTRATIVE
REGION (CAR)

3. ILOCOS REGION
ARCHITECTURE
•Vigan is considered as the “Intramuros of the North”
•“Calle Crisologo”
•made up of adobe, bricks, lime, terracotta,
hardwood, floors, and windows of capiz shells
framed in wooden window panels.

5. ILOCOS REGION
TEXTILE
•“Abel Iloco”.
•comes from the root word “abel” which means
“to weave”
•Produced in wooden looms

8. ILOCOS REGION
TEXTILE
•“binakol” - represents the waves of the sea.
•They believe that these designs protect them
from bad spirits.
•are inspired by natural elements: patterns that
depict different landforms, colors of flowers and
vegetation, plain, zigzags, animal patterns,
ocean waves, or the glittering night sky.

9. ILOCOS REGION
POTTERY
•Burnay is unglazed earthen jar with a small
opening.
•It is used for storage of food
•The potters mix fine gravel, sand, and
ashes and fire the clay to make the
heavy and sturdy.

10. PANGASINAN
Bolinao mats made from buri or raffia
leaves, and the bamboo crafts (baskets,
furniture) of San Carlos.

11. CORDILLERA
ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

12. KALINGA
TEXTILE
•natives of Kalinga are skilled
weavers.
•characterized by red, white, yellow
stripes, and black geometrical
patterns.

13. KALINGA
TEXTILE
•Southern Kalinga - women wear the wrap-
around skirt or tapis called kain from
to thigh
•Northern Kalinga - wears saya, an ordinary
woman’s skirt covering the body from waist
to feet.

14. KALINGA
TEXTILE
• Meanings of colors in the textile:
• Red – Bravery Yellow - Sand
• Black - Soil or Land Green - Mountains
• White - Flowers of the coffee trees

15. KALINGA
BASKETRY
• The labba is a bowl-shaped basket made from rattan, with
sizes that vary from 20-150 cm in diameter.

16. KALINGA
TATOOING
• usually covers the chest and the arms that is
considered as clothing and decoration
• rite of passage from youth to adulthood, a mark of
heroism, and bravery, and status in the

17. KALINGA
TATOOING
• Apo Wang-Od is the last
“Mambabatok” or traditional Kalinga
Tattoo artist
• mixture of charcoal and water that is
tapped onto the skin through a
thorn end.
• CURSE OUTSIDE THE BLOODLINE

19. IFUGAO
SCULPTURE
• Bul’ul is a wooden structure that represents the rice granary
spirits.
• protect their rice fields from pestilence and to ask for an
abundant harvest.
• It is a carved-wooden human figure with simplified forms.
• dipped in the blood of pigs during a ritual called tunod, which
means “planting the seedlings in the soil”
• made of narra signifies wealth, happiness, and well-being to the

20. IFUGAO
ACCESSORIES
• The amulets of the Ifugaos are called lingling-o or dinumug
• made from jade, gold, copper, bronze, stone, and other
materials.
• fertility symbols worn around the neck.

21. MOUNTAIN PROVINCE
(ABRA)
TEXTILES
•Tingguians weave textiles for clothes and
blankets.
•horizontal stripes found in the edges (like those
in bankudo or wrap around skirt) or vertical
stripes in the center (found in the balwasi or

23. CAGAYAN
VALLEY

24. CAGAYAN RIVER
•Longest river in the Philippines

25. BATANES
IVATAN’S HOUSE
• The Ivatans are the people living in
in the Batanes group of islands.
• Their houses have unique
architectural forms made up of
limestones walls, reed, and cogon
roofs.
• The design and materials are
chosen because they are strong
enough to withstand the
numerous typhoons and
earthquakes.

26. ACCESSORIES
VAKUL AND SOOT
• head gear used
• to protect them from the
heat and the rains.
• soot – a rain cape that
covers the upper part of
the body down from the
neck

27. NUEVA VIZCAYA

28. ACCESSORIES
BAKWAT
•Gaddangs
after-
pregnancy belt

30. BULACAN
SINGKABAN
• local term for bamboo arches designed in
kayas or woodshavings. These are used as
decorative arches that adorn the entrance
of a barangay or town during fiestas and
other grand celebrations.
• “The bamboo, like the Filipino, will stand
up against the wind. It is stronger than
steel and harder than rock. The singkaban
is a manifestation of Filipino creativity in
transforming plain bamboo into a work of
art,” typhoons and earthquakes.

31. ACCESSORIES
JEWELRY INDUSTRY
• Meycauayan, Bulacan is
known for its jewelry
industry from gold, silvers,
and precious and semi-
precious stones, pearls, and
diamonds where most of it
was handmade.

33. PAROL
• Pampanga is known for
giant lanterns or parol. It
features dancing lights in
several shapes, and colors
that forms intricate
geometric patterns.
• The patterns change with
the rotation of a special
rotor that controls the lights
inside the parol.

35. LAGUNA
• “Woodcarving Capital of the
Philippines”.
• Their local term for
woodcarving is called ukit.
They usually produce
wooden religious images and
and wood panels with floral
designs and geometric
shapes.

36. RIZAL
• Angono in Rizal Province is considered
as the “Art Capital of the
Philippines”
• They are known for higantes – are big
papier-mache figures of humans that
represent farmers and fishermen.
• Higantes represent the hacienderos
during the Spanish colonial period.
The inhabitants of Angono paraded
these higantes on the streets to mock
the arrogant and cruel landlords.
• Higantes festival happens in every
nd rd

37. BATANGAS
•embroidered piña fabric,
made from the fibers of
pineapple and woven into
a costly fabric.
•The burda called calado,
are commonly in design
of leaves and flowers

38. BATANGAS
• Balisong is also known as a
butterfly knife. Its name derived
from “bali”, the Filipino term for
broken, and “sungay” which
means horn because it is a type
of knife that can be folded like a
fan.
• Balisong capital of the
Philippines”
• gained such renown for the
quality of their workmanship.

39. QUEZON
• The town of Lucban is famous for
the Pahiyas Festival celebrated
every May 15th to honor San
Isidro Labrador, the patron of all
farmers.
• During the festival, the people
decorate their houses with
products and colorful thin rice
wafers called kiping which is
made from glutinous rice that is
coated on mature leaves and