DARHATA SAWABI

JOSE, CAMILLE ANNE C.

PAGUIO, JENNIFER IRAH B.
PASCUAL, JUBHEL S.
OBJECTIVES:

 1. To comprehend the life of Darhata

Sawabi

 2. To know more about the traditional pis

syabit of Sulu
 3.To comprehend the reason why
Darhata Sawabi bacame a GAMABA
Awardee
DARHATA SAWABI

- Textile weaver
- Tausug- Parang, Jolo, Sulu
- Awarded in 2004
- Passed away in March 12,
2005
 AWARD
Year 2004 Darhata Sawabi awarded as a Gamaba
Artist
FACTS ABOUT DARHATA SAWABI
- Darhata Sawabi was raised from birth to do only household

chores.
- She never married
- Weaving is her only possible source of income.
- Her pis syabit are consist of bold contrasting color, evenness of
weave, and she is faithful to the traditional designs of pis syabit,
the reason why her community recognizes her well
EXAMPLES OF PIS SIYABIT
STORY TELLING
TIME!!!!
THE LIFE OF DARHATA SAWABI
- The money she earns from making the colorful squares of cloth has
enabled her to become self-sufficient and less dependent on her nephews
and nieces.
- At 48, and burdened by years of hard work, Sawabi no longer has the
strength or the stamina for this. Instead, she hires one of the neighboring
children or apprentice weavers to do it at the cost of P300.
- In the 1970s, when Jolo was torn apart by armed struggle, Sawabi and her
family were often forced to abandon their home in search of safer habitats
THE LIFE OF DARHATA SAWABI
- They returned to their home to see the pis she had been working on for
nearly a month destroyed by the fighting.
- Sawabi supported her family by weaving and selling her pieces to the
participants in the conflict who passed through her village.
- She continues to weave at home, while teaching the other women of
her community
- She taught young women of Parang and how to do pis sayabit