Blog promoting arts from the region

I am Melougine Cajes, and to all the Filipino out there, let us wander a beautiful and wonderful place and artworks for you to try and enjoy, wearing a beautiful creation of the kalinga Tribes is such a big impact to help and promote the art works from the region. A skirt that are made frome the kalinga Tribes the "Tapis" has been a long active trade in locally woven products of the Philippine country.

Kalinga is both a tribal community and a landlocked province in the heart of the Cordillera region in northern Luzon, the Philippines immersed in the magnificent mountains, kalinga people lived a modest but passionate lives in a world where your skin communicated your social status to the local community.

Their fierce self-determination and geographic isolation provided relative protection from the cultural influences of the Spanish colonisation. However, their art did not remain unchanged.
Cummunities retained forms which ware useful and meaningful, abandoned others and created new forms to meet new purposes a traditional that has continued into 21st century.

Many villages are built around a central stone platform where social and spiritual rites are performed. These include the worship of deities and ancestors and the consecration of sculpture figures.

There  has been a long active trade in locally woven products, so many communities share techniques and an appreciation for similar motifs and colour schemes.

The basic for women across the kalinga region consists of a skirt which is sometimes complemented with a jacket. While many motifs and colours are shared across the region, kalinga clothing is particularly brightly coloured and is often dominated by bands of fiery red.

This type of wrap around skirt is generally known as "tapis" in the Tagalog language and as "kain" to the kalinga. It is characterised by horizontal strips bordered by decorated panels along the joins and edges in typical fashion, this example is further embellished with embroidery, beads and mother - of-pearl shells. The shells, which were an imported novelty for mountainous communities like the kalinga are attached so it has to move and reflect light. This adds a dynamic element to the averall design of the skirt.