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.
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