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• Magdalena Gamayo was born on August 13, 1924 in pinili, Ilocos Norte.

• she learned to weave at the age of 16, informally from her aunt by copying her patterns.

• She received her first loo, which she used for 30 years, from her father at the age of 19

• Magdalena has taught herself the traditional patterns of binakol, inuritan (geometric design), kusikos (spiral forms similar to oranges), and sinan-sabong (flowers), which is the most challenging pattern.

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• The National Museum of the Philippines is honored to receive a recently created inabel masterpiece from Manlilikha ng Bayan Magdalena " Nana Daleng" Gamayo on the occasion of her 98th birthday on 13 august 2022

• The Inabel is one of the many prides of the Ilocos region in the Philippines. "Inabel" can be interpreted to mean any kind of woven fabric. In the world of waeving however, inabel is particulary used to refer to textile that is distinctly Ilocano in origin.

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• Magdalena Gamayo was conferred with the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan award in 2012 for her excellent contribution to the cultural heritage of the country as a master textile weaver.

• The framed inabel was turned over by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) Executive Council, through its representative Dr. Edwin V. Antonio, to NMP Deputy Director-General for Museums Jorell M. Legaspi last 30 August 2022. Adorned with sinankurus (cross) design, the textile piece is now part of the GAMABA Special Collection.

Ambalang ausalin

• Ambang Ausalin was born on march 4, 1943 in Basilan, city of lamitan

• She learned weaving through her mother, who was to be the best weaver in Basilan and practiced the craft using coconut strips.

• she is able to bring forth all designs and actualize all textile categories typical to the Yakan.

• She can execute the suwah bekkat (cross-stitch-like embellishment) and suwah pendan (embroidery-like embellishment) techniques of the bunga sama category.

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• Ambalang Ausalin or apuh ambalang, was renowned for her excellent skills in yakan weaving technique and design, such as the sinalu'an and seputangan

• The trademark of which were eye catching colors and balanced combination of minute diamonds and other geometric design.

• Sinalu'alu and seputangan are the fabric category with the most complex weave.

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• Ambang Ausalin received the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (National Living Treasure) Award in 2016 for ther mastery of even the most inticate of Yakan weaving styles.

• Ambalang is best identified with the sinalu’an teed, the most complicated of all Yakan woven textiles.

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• Estelita Tumandan Bantilan was born on October 17, 1940

• Estelita Tumandan Bantilan, also known as Labnai, is renowed master weaver of Blaan mats called "igem"

• “Princess” In her old age, Estelita began to be called by a new nickname, Princess. The term of endearment is spoken with the lightness of heart; also with genuine respect, especially from the other mat weavers of Upper Lasang.

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• Her other signature design are sangbangkil (wavy patterns of quadrilaterals), sulong-sulong (windows), and daksina (propeller-like pattern).

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• She is credited with creating "some of the biggest, most subtly beautiful mats to be seen anywhere in Southeast Asia."

• She was given the National living treasure award by the Philippines through the National Commision for Culture and the Arts in 2016

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• Yabing Masalon Dulo was born on August 8 1914 in a Blaan village in Landan, Polmok, South Cotabato

• Yabing started to learn the craft of Blaan traditional mabal tabih art of ikat weaving the age of 14

• She does know for a fact that she was born in a place already called Landan in that long ago time

• Yabing was born in an Amgu-o where the plant and animal life were differentiated to minute degrees by the locals in the vocabulary of their tongue, Blaan.

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• Two of her tabih are considered masterpieces. One of these is dispalyed in the Philippines National Museum.

• To preserve the Blaan weaving tradition, Yabing taught the craft of tabih to her only daughter Lamina Dulo Gulili and women in her community.

• Mabal is the Blaan term for the abaca weaving process.

• Tabih is the term for the finished hand woven cloth and it also refers to the traditional Blaan tubular skirt

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• at the time of her death, she was one of only two surviving master designers of the mabal tabih art of the indigenous Blaan peole of southern Mindanao in the Philippine.

• She was given the National Living Treasure Award in 2016 by the Philippines through the National Commision for the Culture and the Arts.

• She was a Filipino textile master weaver and dyer, credited with preserving the Blaan traditional mabal tabih art of ikat weaving and dyeing.