Lang Dulay 

(August 3, 1928 - April 30, 2015) was

a Filipino traditional weaver who was a recipient of
the National Living Treasures Award.
She is credited with preserving her people's tradition of
weaving T'nalak, a dyed fabric made from refined abaca fibre.

Salinta Monon (December 12, 1920 – June 4, 2009) was a

Filipino textile weaver who was the one of two recipients of
the National Living Treasures Award in 1998. She was known
for her Bagobo-Tagabawa textiles and was known as the "last
Bagobo weaver". Monon was born on December 12,
1920, and grew up in Bituag, Bansalan in Davao del Sur and
watched her mother weave ikat a traditional abaca fabric
when she was a child, She asked her mother how to use the
loom at age 12 and learned how to weave within a few
months. She weaves a design for three to four months. In a
month she can weave fabric which can be used for a single
abaca tube skirt which measures 3.5 x 0.42 meters. Her
favorite design is the binuwaya or crocodile which is said to be among the most difficult to
weave. President Rodrigo Duterte declared a year-long celebration named "Centennial Year
of Salinta Monon" from December 12, 2021, in her honor.

Darhata Sawabi is a Filipino weaver from Parang, Sulu known

for pis syabit, a traditional Tausūg cloth tapestry worn as a head
covering by the people of Jolo. She is a recipient of the National
Living Treasures Award, having given the distinction in
2004. Pis refers to the geometric pattern that is said to be derived
from the Indic mandala, and siyabit stands for the hook and
technique.Unmarried, Sawabi does weaving as a means of
livelihood since farming, a common source of income for Parang
families, is not sustainable for herself. Pis syabit weaving is a
tedious work. It takes three days for the warp alone to be made.
By age 48, she employs the help of apprentice weavers and
children in her work. In the 1970s, she has to moved residence at least twice due to
the Moro conflict. Sawabi died on March 12, 2005, about a year after she was given
the National Living Treasures Award.
Haja Amina Appi (June 25, 1925 – April 2, 2013) was a Filipino
master mat weaver and teacher from the Sama indigenous
people of Ungos Matata, Tandubas, Tawi-Tawi. She was credited
for creating colorful pandan mats with complex geometric
patterns. Her creations were acclaimed for their precise sense of
design, proportion and symmetry, and sensitivity to color. She
was given the National Living Treasures Award in 2004 by the
Philippines through the National Commission for Culture and the
Arts.

Magdalena Gamayo (born 13 August 1924) is a

Filipino weaver who is a lead-practitioner of
the Ilocano tradition of pinagabel. She is a native
of Pinili, Ilocos Norte, learned the Ilocano weaving
tradition of making inabel from her aunt at age 16.
She taught herself on how to execute the traditional
patterns of binakol, inuritan (geometric
design), kusikos (orange-like spiral forms),
and sinan-sabong (flowers). She became best
known for weaving the sinan-sabong, since it is the
most challenging pattern among the four. Her
father bought her first loom, made by a local
craftman using sag'gat hardwood. Gamayo's loom
lasted for 30 years. Already past 80 years old, Gamayo remained committed in
making inabel. On November 8, 2012, she was conferred the National Living Treasure
Award. In late 2016, the House of Inabel was inaugurated enabling Gamayo to further
promote pinagabel.

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Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan
(Weavers)
Ambalang Ausalin (March 4, 1943 – February 18, 2022)
was a Filipino master weaver from the city
of Lamitan, Basilan. Ambalang was renowned for her
mastery of the crafts of sinaluan and sputangan, two of
the most intricately designed textiles of the
indigenous Yakan community. She learned weaving
through her mother, who was previously reputed to be the
best weaver in Basilan and first practiced the craft by using
coconut strips. Ausalin was given the National Living
Treasure Award by the Philippines through the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2016. She died at
her home in Parangbasak, Lamitan, on February 18, 2022,
at the age of 78.

Estelita Tumandan Bantilan (born Labnai Tumndan on October

17, 1940) is a Filipino textile weaver from the municipality
of Malapatan, Sarangani. She is credited with creating "some of
the biggest, most subtly beautiful mats to be seen anywhere in
Southeast Asia." She was given the National Living Treasure
Award by the Philippines through the National Commission for
Culture and the Arts in 2016. Bantilan opened a mat weaving
center in Malapatan to preserve and promote the tradition
of Blaan weaving.

Yabing Masalon Dulo (8 August 1914 – 26

January 2021), commonly referred to as Fu
Yabing, was a Filipino textile master weaver
and dyer, credited with preserving the Blaan
traditional mabal tabih art of ikat weaving and
dyeing. At the time of her death, she was one
of only two surviving master designers of the
mabal tabih art of the indigenous Blaan
people of southern Mindanao in
the Philippines. She was given the National
Living Treasures Award by the Philippines
through the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.