Inammata (Innovation by Patis Tesoro)
LOCAL NAME:
Inammata (Innovation by Patis Tesoro)
ENGLISH NAME:
Swatch
DESCRIPTION:
Ga’dang, Mountain Province: Inammata (Innovation by Patis Tesoro)
A swatch with orange and yellow stripes featuring indigo and orange diamond-like patterns.
COMMONLY USED BY/IN:
Ga’dang, Mountain Province
MATERIAL COMPOSITION:
Cotton threads, Dye
ITEM CONSTRUCTION:
Multi-heddle weave, Stitching
DIMENSIONS:
Length
42 cm
Width
28 cm
Fringes
6 cm
ACQUISITION YEAR:
2021
RESEARCH DATA:
The Ga’dang is one of the weaving communities in the Luzon Cordillera notable for diamond-like designs called mata-mata or inammata. This motif signifies an “eye”, and is traditionally woven in blankets and wrap-around skirts in a “texturized” manner (Pastor-Roces, 1991). Respicio (2014) articulates that this “texture” is a distinctive element among textiles woven using the multi-heddle design technique, where several heddles are being used to “pull up and down selected warp yarns” to form the designs (p. 84). This textile from the collection is a swatch – a small piece of fabric used in visualizing larger textile projects like blankets and skirts to be woven in the future, or a run-through of a particular design or technique to be applied.
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