This document provides an overview of the folk arts and designs of the Luzon region in the Philippines. It discusses the textile arts, weaving traditions, and crafts of different ethnic groups in Luzon. Some of the groups highlighted include the Ilocanos from Ilocos Region, known for their patterned fabrics and natural dyes. The Cordillera people such as the Kalinga, Ifugao, and tribes of the Mountain Province like the Bontoc are renowned for their woven textiles, baskets, amulets, and tattoo art designs that represent their culture and traditions.
3. Islands in Luzon
1.Batanes
2. Babuyan groups of Island
3. Catanduanes
4. Marinduque
5. Masbate
6. Romblon
7. Palawan
8. Mindoro
= capital city of LuzonManila
4. Motif = In visual arts it means a repeated pattern
or theme.
= In textile arts such as weaving it is a
recurring fragment of that piece when
joined together makes a larger work.
5. Textile = Refers to a cloth that involves weaving
or making of cloth using a natural or
artificial threads or fibers
Folk arts = expressions of the community in their
crafts that are usually made because
of their utilitarian and functional
purpose instead of their mere
aesthetics.
Aesthetics = the science of judging beauty.
6. Dye Coloring materials that are made of natural
or synthetic pigments for coloring fibers
used in cloth weaving.
Loomweaving Is a process of weaving using
a loom .
17. Panagabel = Oldest ilocano weaving tradition
that they have inherited from their ancestors.
Main ingredients of panagabel weaving
1. Tilar
2. Sinulid
3. Pasensya (patience)
24. Cordillera Autonomous Region ( CAR )
Benguet = located in CAR. Home of the
Cordilleran (politically correct term for Igorots)
People living in Benguet
1.Igorots = Hillside dwellers
29. Kalinga = also great weavers
Kalinga textiles
Characterized by……
1.Dominant red stripes
2.Motif of geometric patterns
3.Natures symbols interlaced with white, yellow
and black fibers .
30. Ifugao = means people from the hills
Ikat = loincloth weave by the ifugao
= an Indonesian term meaning to
bind together.
31. Ikat = Loincloth weaved by ifugaos
= a Indonesian term meaning to bind together.
32. Amulets = Made of gold, beads and bronze
and other materials
Kinds of amulets
lingling Dinumog
Used as fertility symbol and worn
around the neck.
33. Mountain Province
= Located in the codillera central mountain
and known for its hanging coffins and
mummified bodies.
37. Kadangyan Burial cloth
= Burial cloth for rich people and only
grandmothers are allowed to weave it during
the olden times.
38. Tattoo art
= another form of folk art in mountain province
= it is a part of their clothing and is considered
as decoration
= signifies a rite of passage from youth to adult life
= heroism
= status in the community
= bravery
44. Inawin Designs
Designs composed of continuous zigzag
pattern woven in a double faced with braided
warps that ends in tassels.
45. Types of baskets in Bontoc
1. bobo = A type of basket used to catch fish
2. suklang = an everyday hat used by men for
their matches ,tobacco and beetle nut for chewing