Ilocos Region

Architecture-Vigan, considered as the

“Intramuros of the North,”retains
the
Spanish colonial architecture along
its
Narrow and cobble-stoned streets
known as CalleCrisologo.
• Textile
Inabel a hand weaving technique that is
produced using traditional wooden
looms.Inabel designs are inspired by
natural elements: patterns that depict
different landforms, the colors of flowers
and vegetation, the ocean waves, or the
glittering night sky.
Pottery
Burnay is an unglazed earthen
jar with small opening.
The potters mix fine gravel,
sand and ashes and fire
the clay to make the burnay
heavy and sturdy.
• Pangasinan
Weaving
• Arts and crafts of Pangasinan
include the smoothly
• woven Bolinao mats made from
buri or raffia
• leaves, and the bamboo crafts
(baskets, furniture)
 Kalinga
Textile
Kalinga textile is
characterized by red stripes
and white, yellow and black
geometrical patterns.
• 1. Kain or tapis a wrap-
around skirt worn by
southern Kalinga women.
• 2.Saya an ordinary woman’s
skirt covering the body from
waist to feet of northern
Kalinga women
Basketry
• Labba is a bowl-
shaped basket made
from rattan,
• with sizes that vary
from 20 to 150 cm in
diameter
 Tattooing
• Tattooing considered as clothing and decoration of
Kalinga.
• It also signifies a rite of passage from youth to
adulthood, a
• mark of heroism, and bravery and one’s status in the
comm-
• unity.
• The design consists of geometric patterns and lines.
• 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.
• Ifugao
 Ifugao
Sculpture
• 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.
• Bul’ul is a carved-wooden human
figure with simplified form. It is
• usually made of narra which signifies
wealth, happiness and well-
• being to the Ifugao.
Amulets
• Lingling-o or dinumug is a
fertility symbols worn around
the neck Ifugao that is made
from jade, gold, copper, bronze,
stone and other materials
Mountain Province
• Textile
• 1.Lubid figures like eye,
man, lizard, star, variation,
snake, butterfly, shield, spear,
and flower. All the figures,
except for the flower are
woven into the garments. The
flower is embroidered.
2.Kabayan mummies declared National
• Cultural Treasure of the Philippines. Close
• examination of the mummies reveals that
• they have body tattoos. Which is a form of
• art practiced by most of the cultural comm-
• unities in the Philippines from Luzon to
• Visayas and some parts of Mindanao
• 3. Kadangyan woven by female elders known
as burial cloth of the province.
• 4. Wanes is a men’s traditional attire.
• 5. Lubid a short and narrow wrap-around skirt
of women that extends from the nave, to the
knees, and has a side opening.
• 6. Ginaspalawanes a type of belt worn by
married women of Bontoc and Kankanay in
the Northen Cordillera.
• 7. Ikat a weaving method of the natives of
Bontoc that create their textile patterns.
 Abra
1. Bankudo a wrap-around skirt with
white textiles and horizontal stripes
found in the edges
2. Balwasi a female blouse with
vertical stripes in the center
Get ready!!!!
 Activity 1. By Pair

textiles from the CAGAYAN

Simi VALLEY
Textiles from the Ilocos
lariti
region
es
 Get ½ sheet of paper
1. What do you call on a hand weaving
technique of the Ilocanos that is produced using
traditional wooden looms and its designs are
inspired by natural elements?
2-4. enumerated the three (3) materials that
used to make the burnay heavy and steady.
5. She is considered as last “Mambabatok” of
kalinga tattoo artist.
6. What do you call on an amulets of the
Ifugaos that is considered as “fertility
symbols”?
7. Kalinga: wrap-around skirt is KAIN
• Mountain Province: wrap-around skirt
is________?
8.What do you call on a belt that being worned by a
married women of Bontoc and Kankanay that is
adorned with designs of continuous zigzag pattern
woven in double faced with braided warps that end as
tassels?
9. It is a bowl-shaped basket made from rattan with
sizes that vary from 20 to 150 cm in diameter of
Kalinga?
10. It is considered as 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 Capiz shells framed window?
Thank
you!!!
Correct Answer
1.Inabel
2-4.Fine gravel, sand, and ashes
5.Whang-Od
6.Lingling-o or Dinumug
7. Lubid
8. Ginaspalawanes
9. Labba
10. CalleCrisologo, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur
 Assignment
In a ½ crosswise, answer the following questions
(individual)

1.What is the similarity between

wood carving and sculpture?
2.What is the difference between
wood carving and sculpture?