The document discusses various arts and crafts from different regions in the Philippines, including architecture, textiles, pottery, weaving, basketry, tattooing, sculpture, and amulets. Some key points mentioned are: - The Spanish colonial architecture retained in the streets of Vigan, such as large adobe houses with capiz shell windows. - Weaving traditions like inabel from Ilocos and Kalinga textiles featuring geometric patterns with cultural meanings. - Pottery forms like burnay water jars from Ilocos decorated with curved patterns. - Skilled basketry from Kalinga including large rattan bowls and tattooing as a rite of passage marked

3. Arts and Crafts are important
means of expression, which
communicate views, ideas, and feelings
through the use of skills and
imagination. These are important parts
of our daily lives and can be found
everywhere.

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

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

7. TEXTILE
Inabel is a hand weaving
technique of the Ilocanos that
is produced using traditional
wooden looms. The different
designs represent different
meanings: the dizzying
“binakol” weave represents the
waves of the sea. They believe
that this design will protect
them from bad spirits.

8. TEXTILE
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.

9. POTTERY
Burnay is an unglazed
earthen jar with small
opening. It is used for
storage for water and rice
grains and as container
for salt, brown sugar, basi
(local wine) and bagoong
(fermented fish).

10. POTTERY
The potters mix fine
gravel, sand and ashes and fire
the clay to make burnay heavy
and sturdy.
The designs are simple.
Sometimes, curved patterns
can be found around the
shoulders of the jar. They also
prick the jar with a stick while
it still soft to make the surface
interesting.

12. WEAVING
The arts and crafts of
Pangasinan include the
smoothly woven Bolinao
Mats mad from buri or
raffia leaves, and the
bamboo crafts (baskets
furniture) of San Carlos.

15. TEXTILE
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.

16. TEXTILE
The southern Kalinga women
wear the wrap-around skirt or
tapis called Kain, which reaches
below the knee. It is worn below
the abdomen, and when they
walk, one of the thighs is exposed.
The northern Kalinga wears
Saya, an ordinary woman’s skirt
covering the body from waist to
feet.

17. TEXTILE
The colors used in
their textile have cultural
meanings: red signifies
bravery, black is for the
soil or land; white is for
the flowers of the coffee
trees; yellow for the sand;
and green for the
mountains.

18. BASKETRY
The basketry of the
Kalinga shows their fine
craftsmanship. The Labba
is a bowl-shaped basket
made from rattan, with
sizes that vary from 20 to
150 cm in diameter.

19. TATTOING
Tattoing is another form of
art of the Kalinga. Because it
usually covers the chest and the
arms, it may be considered as
clothing and decoration. 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
patterns and lines.

20. TATTOING
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.

22. SCULPTURE
The Bul’ul is a wooden
sculpture that represents
the rice granary spirits. 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
harvest.

23. SCULPTURE
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 seedlings in
the soil.

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

25. AMULETS
The amulets of the
Ifugao’s are called
Lingling-o or Dinumug.
These are made of jade,
gold, copper, bronze, stone
and other materials.
These are fertility
symbols worn around the
neck.

27. TEXTILE
The natives of Bontoc
create their textile
patterns through 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.

28. TEXTILE
The motifs of Bontocs
include geometric shapes
of humans, lizards,
mountains, rains, and
flowers, and other form of
plants, animals, and
landforms found in their
everyday surroundings.

29. TEXTILE
The province is also
known for their burial
cloth, kadangyan,
woven by female elders.

30. TEXTILE
The men’s traditional
attire is called Wanes.
The women use a short
and narrow wrap-around
skirt called Lufid, which
extends from the navel to
the knees, and has a side
opening.

31. TEXTILE
Married women of
Bontoc and Kankanay in
the Northern Cordillera
wear a type of belt called
ginaspalawanes. These are
adorned with designs
composed of continuos
zigzag patterns woven in
double faced with braided
warps that end as tassels.

33. TEXTILE
The Tingguians weave
teaxtiles 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).