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Dinapat (Sinan-mais, Sinan-kutsara) (c)

LOCAL NAME:

Dinapat (Sinan-mais, Sinan-kutsara) (c)

ENGLISH NAME:

Blanket with corn-like or spoon-like motifs

DESCRIPTION:

Abra, Tinguian, Itneg, Ilocos, & Ilocano: Dinapat (Sinan-mais, Sinan-kutsara)
A yellow dinapat blanket in three panels, featuring river and spoon-like motifs. It has fringed borders.

COMMONLY USED BY/IN:

Abra, Tinguian, Itneg, Ilocos, Ilocano

MATERIAL COMPOSITION:

Thread, Dye

ITEM CONSTRUCTION:

Brocade weave, Stitching

DIMENSIONS:

Length
194 cm

Width
158 cm

Fringed borders
6 cm

ACQUISITION YEAR:

2021

DISPLAY STATUS:

BURC

RESEARCH DATA:

This blanket from the collection is a dinapat textile featuring spoon-like motifs (sinan-kutsara), and corn-like motifs (sinan-mais). The patterns and motifs exhibit reflective symmetry, with both upper and lower, left and right parts of the blanket mirroring each other. According to Salvador-Amores and De Las Peñas (2019), this type of symmetry is a defining characteristic of dinapat textiles, with both its horizontal and vertical axis passing through the center (p. 98). This sinan-kutsara blanket uses a “continuous supplementary weft patterning” and displays the motifs in rows or grids (Pastor-Roces, 1991, p. 76). Others, however, refer to this motif or pattern as the sinan-mais (corn), which is one of their most important farming crops next to rice or palay. As part of the finishing touches, the blanket ends with a fringed border, which is locally known as the pulikos.

REFERENCES:

Pastor-Roces, M. (1991). Sinaunang Habi: Philippine Ancestral Weave. Nikki Books.

Salvador-Amores, A. V., & De Las Peñas, M. L. A. N. (2019). Mathematical and Anthropological Analysis of Northern Luzon Funeral Textile. Philippine Journal of Science, 145(1), 89-103. https://philjournalsci.dost.gov.ph/images/pdf/pjs_pdf/vol145no1/pdf/mathematical_and_anthropological_analysis_of_funeral_textile_FINALCOPY.pdf

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