The document summarizes traditional arts and crafts from various regions in the Philippines. It describes weaving, embroidery, woodcarving, pottery, basketry, tattooing, and sculpting techniques used to create items like piña fabric, balisong knives, carved saints, Bul'ul figures, and woven mats and baskets. Specific towns are known for festivals featuring foods like kiping rice wafers or crafts such as Vigan architecture, Paete woodcarving, and Batanes vakul headgear. Traditional techniques like ikat weaving, ukit carving, and abaca fiber crafts are used to showcase regional cultural identities across the Philippines.

1. ARTS & CRAFTS OF
LUZON
[highlands & lowlands]

2. ART
Elements and Principles of Art

3. What is ART?
• Art is the embodiment of an idea, a view of life, or feeling in an
expressive form or design.
• Artists make these artistic expressions using different tools, materials,
and methods.
• PERFORMING ARTS – forms of art which use the artists’ bodies,
faces, movements, and presence as media.
• VISUAL ARTS – arts that can be seen and can be appreciated by
looking at them. (painting, photography, print, film, sculpture, and
architecture)

4. ELEMENTS OF
ART

5. LINES -a line is a mark made by a moving point
HORIZONTAL
VERTICAL
DIAGONAL
CURVED
ZIGZAG

6. SHAPE -is a two-dimensional figure enclosed by a line
-shapes are flat and have only height & width
GEOMETRIC
ORGANIC

7. FORM -refers to an object with three dimensions
-height, width, depth
SHAPE
FORM

8. SPACE -refers to the distance or area – between, around,
above, and below – within objects

9. TEXTUR
E
-is the surface quality of an object
-perceived through touch and sight senses
TACTILE TEXTURES
Real textures which you can
touch and feel
ARTIFICIAL TEXTURES
Human-made surface quality
that is supposed to look & feel
like some material
VISUAL TEXTURES
Textures evoked by a
photograph or picture depicting
an object

10. COLOR -derived from reflected light
-is what the eye sees when light bounces off an object
PRIMARY RED, YELLOW, BLUE
SECONDARY ORANGE, GREEN, VIOLET
TERTIARY
YELLOW GREEN, BLUE GREEN
RED VIOLET, BLUE VIOLET
RED ORANGE, YELLOW ORANGE

11. THE ARTS & CRAFTS
OF CALABARZON &
BICOL REGION

12. LAGUNA
-is a lakeside province rich in natural resources and fertile soil for farming
PAETE
“Woodcarving of the Philippines”
Ukit – local term for carving
saints, religious images, wood panels
decorative carvings, floral patterns, florid geometric shapes

13. RIZAL PROVINCE
-rich in artistic expressions (music, painting, sculpting & folk arts)
ANGONO
“Art Capital of the Philippines”
Higantes – big papier mache figures of humans that
represent farmers and fishermen
– father, mother, child
– 7 to 10 feet
– November 22-23, Higantes Festival

14. TAAL, BATANGAS
-famous for producing embroidered piña fabric
(barong, wedding gowns & formal attires)
-”Balisong Capital of the Philippines”
CALADO
Burda made by designer, embroiderer, cutter
leaves and flowers (fine, smooth & delicate qualities)
BALISONG
Butterfly knife, “bali” – broken, “sungay” – horn
folded closed like a fan, different sizes

15. QUEZON
LUCBAN
Pahiyas Festival
May 5, San Isidro Labrador (patron saint of farmers)
Kiping – colorful thin rice wafers
– made from ground glutinous rice that is thinly
coated on mature leaves & steamed over low fire
Pabitin, San Isidrohan, Aranya

16. BICOL REGION
WEAVING
Baskets, bags, slippers, coin purses
Abaca, raffia fibers
Motifs are simple but colorful

17. THE ARTS & CRAFTS
OF ILOCOS REGION &
CAR

18. ILOCOS REGION
ARCHITECTURE
Vigan – “Intramuros of the North”

19. ILOCOS REGION
TEXTILE
Inabel – hand weaving technique produced using traditional
wooden looms

20. ILOCOS REGION
POTTERY
Burnay – unglazed earthen jar with small opening

21. ILOCOS REGION
WEAVING
Bolinao mats – buri, raffia leaves, bamboo crafts

22. CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
KALINGA - TEXTILE
red stripes; white, yellow and black geometric patterns

23. CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
KALINGA - BASKETRY
Labba – bowl-shaped basket made from rattan

24. CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
KALINGA - TATTOING
Wang-od – the last “mambabatok”

25. CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
IFUGAO - SCULPTURE
Bul’ul – rice granary spirits
Lingling-o / dinumog – amulets for fertility symbol

26. CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
MOUNTAIN PROVINCE - TEXTILE
Ikat weaving method – tying and dyeing of threads

27. CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
ABRA - TEXTILE
Tingguians weave textiles – bankudo & balwasi

28. THE ARTS & CRAFTS
OF CAGAYAN VALLEY
& CENTRAL LUZON

29. CAGAYAN VALLEY
BATANES
Ivatan– people living in the Batanes Group of Islands
Vakul – head gear used to protect from heat and rain

30. CAGAYAN VALLEY
ISABELA
Tumauini Church – Baroque church of San Matias Apostol

31. CAGAYAN VALLEY
NUEVA VIZCAYA
Bakwat – belt used for mothers after giving birth

32. CAGAYAN VALLEY
BULACAN
Singkaban, Pastillas Wrapper,
Fire Crackers, Goldsmithing

33. CAGAYAN VALLEY
PAMPANGA
Giant Lanterns or Parol – created from steel frames