The document summarizes folk arts from the Ilocos region of the Philippines, which consists of four provinces: Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Pangasinan, and La Union. Ilocos Norte is known for agriculture including rice and corn, fisheries, livestock, and cottage industries like weaving. Ilocos Sur's capital Vigan preserves Spanish colonial architecture and is known for inabel cotton fabric and burnay earthenware jars. Pangasinan was historically known for salt and crafts include woven Bolinao mats and bamboo crafts. La Union is known for pottery-making and soft brooms made of corn fibers.

1. ILOCOS REGION FOLK ARTS
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2. TOPICS TO COVER:
• Foreword
• Ilocos Norte
• Ilocos Sur
• Pangasinan
• La Union

3. • Ilocanos are known to be thrifty and persevering people who engage in weaving,
creating blankets, towels, table cloths, bags, and so forth.
• The Ilocos Region are composed of four province: Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur,
Pangasinan and La Union.

4. ILOCOS NORTE
• The capital of Ilocos Norte is Laoag City.
• It is known for the following products and industries:
Agriculture
Fishery
Livestock
Cottage Industry
Manufacturing and Food Processing

5. ILOCOS NORTE
• Agriculture – rice, corn, garlic, legumes, root crops, tobacco, and other fruits
and vegetable.

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• Fishery – tilapia, and assorted fishes.

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• Livestock – Swine and cattle.

8. ILOCOS NORTE
• Cottage Industry – loom weaving, furniture, ceramics, and iron works.

9. ILOCOS NORTE
• Manufacturing and Food Processing – salt, bagoong (shrimp paste), patis (fish
sauce), basi (native local wine), vinegar, longganisa, chicharon, bagnet, jewelry,
garment, cereal processing.

10. ILOCOS SUR
• Vigan, the capital of Ilocos Sur, is known for having preserved much of its Hispanic
colonial character, particularly its grid street pattern and historic urban layout. It is
the best – preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia established
in the 16th century and architecture that reflects the different cultural elements.

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12. ILOCOS SUR
• The famous product in this area of Ilocos is the fabric called inabel. Inabel is a fabric
made from cotton which undergoes binatbatan or beating of the cotton balls using
bamboo sticks to separate the seeds during the initial stage. The resulting threads
are then dyed from the sap of black plum called sagut.

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14. ILOCOS SUR
• Another famous folk art produced in Ilocos Sur are burnay or earthenware jars.
• These are used in tea drinking, storage for salt, brown sugar, water and local wine
(basi), and fermented fish paste (bagoong isda).

15. ILOCOS SUR

16. PANGASINAN
• Pangasinan was known as the salt capital of the Philippines during the Pre –
Hispanic times. Its famous crafts include the smooth weaved Bolinao mats, the
bamboo crafts of San Carlos, bagoong, and tapang bangus.
• The Bolinao mat or banig is a simple handwoven mat common in other southeast
Asian countries for sleeping. They are made by dyeing the buri strips and weaving
them to produce a design.

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18. LA UNION
• In La Union, it is a tradition for all house hold members to sit together and create
hand-crafted potteries and dalikan or cooking stoves. La Union is also known for its
soft broom industry made of natural corn fibers that are hewed to produce highly
durable bound corn straw.

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