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    Tugaya: The Artisans' Heartland

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    Tugaya is a small lakeside community in the Philippines known for its large number of skilled artisans. Most artisanal goods sold around the country come from Tugaya, including wooden chests, drums, tapestries, and crafts made from materials like wood, brass, and abaca fiber. The town is especially renowned for its intricately carved and inlaid wooden chests called "baur" as well as brass jars, trays, and swords. Weaving is also an important craft, including the traditional Maranao wrap-around garment called a "malong" that comes in everyday and special occasion styles. The kulintangan musical ensemble incorporates gongs, drums, and decorative

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    Tugaya is a small lakeside community in the Philippines known for its large number of skilled artisans. Most artisanal goods sold around the country come from Tugaya, including wooden chests, drums, tapestries, and crafts made from materials like wood, brass, and abaca fiber. The town is especially renowned for its intricately carved and inlaid wooden chests called "baur" as well as brass jars, trays, and swords. Weaving is also an important craft, including the traditional Maranao wrap-around garment called a "malong" that comes in everyday and special occasion styles. The kulintangan musical ensemble incorporates gongs, drums, and decorative

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    Tugaya is a small lakeside community in the Philippines known for its large number of skilled artisans. Most artisanal goods sold around the country come from Tugaya, including wooden chests, drums, tapestries, and crafts made from materials like wood, brass, and abaca fiber. The town is especially renowned for its intricately carved and inlaid wooden chests called "baur" as well as brass jars, trays, and swords. Weaving is also an important craft, including the traditional Maranao wrap-around garment called a "malong" that comes in everyday and special occasion styles. The kulintangan musical ensemble incorporates gongs, drums, and decorative

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    Tugaya: The Artisans’ Heartland

    - Tugaya is the ground zero of it all. It is thought that there’s an artisan in every home
    in this lakeside community. And walking around town, it isn’t truly hard to spot someone
    working on a piece. Tugaya is famous for many crafty things — chests, drums, gongs & tapestries. They
    work with various materials too like wood, brass, bamboo, plastic beads & abaca fiber. The truth is, most of
    what’s sold in many markets around the country are from this small town of artisans.

    “Baur”- or wooden chests are among the best pieces produced here. Unlike other chests, the Maranao
    baur is handcarved with intricate okir motifs & inlayed with “tipay” or polished shells. Also, Tugayanons
    are the best known makers of metalcrafts

    Baur or baul tipay

    The “gadur” or brass jars, tabak or brass serving trays & the “kampilan” or swords are among their
    masterpieces.

    Gadur

    Kampilan
    Pualas & the Masters of the Loom

    Maranao arts and crafts are unrecognizable without mentioning the “malong”, an important part
    of their traditional clothing. Malong is a wrap-around garment worn by everyone. There’s one
    for everyday wear. Then there are more for special occasions called “landap”.

    Malong

    Langkit weaving is one of his supported programs for its livelihood impact. But most importantly because
    these weavers are the bearers of their time-honored artistry.
    Kulintangan: A Music & Visual Ensemble

    The kulintangan is an ensemble of musical instruments. The “kulintang” or small melodically


    arranged gongs, the “agung” or big gongs as well as a set of drums called “debakan” usually
    make up the assemblage.

    But apart from being musical instruments, it also carry decorative designs intricately carved or
    engraved on it.

    kulintang
    agung

    debakan

    Okir: Unifying Maranao Arts and Crafts

    Traditional Maranao arts and crafts is a rich collection. And the “okir” is the design element that
    brings together all of its folk art into one cohesive visual extravaganza. Okir is a set of leaf, fern
    or vine motif expressed in most of its art.

    Okir
    Whether in woodworks or metalcrafts, okir is a prominent design. Their handwoven fabrics as
    well as architecture heavily use it too. And whether it’s sculpted, painted, woven or engraved,
    okir stays as its strongest & most distinguishable aesthetic.

    COMPILATIONS
    OF CRAFTS AND
    ART
    OF
    MARANAO

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