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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.

REFERENCES:

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

Respicio, N. A. (2014). The design techniques. In Journey of a thousand shuttles: The Philippine Weave (pp. 70-73). Manila:The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, pp. 1-153.

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