REDUTA, ANN BEVERLY A.

BSN II-B

DAGMAY is a Mandaya Woven Cloth that

is made from abaca fiber and its colors from
barks, seeds, fruits and other natural dyes.
Every Mandaya family that weaves the cloth
has a unique design and is used as a token
of peace when tribesmen try to resolve the
problems among communities.

As Davao Oriental celebrates its 1 st

anniversary as a province, it also
showcases the weaving of its first people,
the Mandaya tribes, as the province’s pride with its Dayaw Badu-a Mindanao and
dagmay inspired fashion show featuring the creations of top Davao fashion designers of
the Davao Fashion and Davao Counsil.

The Davao designers behind Dayaw Badu are Aztec Barba, Dodjie Batu, Bamba Limon,
Windell Mira, Egay Ayag, Ami Alexander
Englis, Edgar Buyan and Benjie Panisales.

PIS SYABIT is the traditional cloth tapestry

made from cotton or silk worn as a head
covering by the Tausug of Sulu. Unlike
other traditional weaves, Pis Syabit are
intricately woven at the houses of the
tausugs. Most of the elder weavers devoted
their full time to their craft.

The most recognized community of pis

syabit weavers in Sulu are from barangay
Guimba Lagasan in the town of Parang, This is also where the late master weaver
DARHATA SAWABI, a GAMABA Awardee
of 2005.

SEPUTANGAN is the most intricate design

worn by the women around their waist or as
a head cloth. The Palipattang is patterned
after the color of the rainbow while the
bunga-sama after the python. Almost every yakan fabric can described as unique since
the finished materials are not exactly
identical.

INAUL (also pronounced as “inol”) is the

traditional woven cloth of the Maguindanaon.
It is the Maguindanoan word for “woven”. For
years this cultural icon has been a “given”
among Maguindanao women: they wear it,
they weave it and they sell it as “malong”.

Other notable designs include umpak which

is embroidered-laden and hard to do,
binaludto or rainbow, panigabi or taro and the
rare tie-dye binaludan called ikat by the T’boli
and the people of Crodillera.

The three types of threads being used in

weaving are tanor which is cottony, the silky rayon and katiyado which is the shiny
type.

Rayon and Tanor can be mixed together to form a malong called “mestiza”.