Mat weaving has a long tradition across the Philippines using natural materials like pandan and buri palm leaves, with different regions developing unique styles of weaving and embroidery, and mats being used for various purposes from sleeping mats to decorative art; mat weaving in places like Laminusa, Basey, and the Sulu Islands is particularly renowned for its fine craftsmanship and incorporation of designs that have taken on new meanings over time.
Mat weaving has a long tradition across the Philippines using natural materials like pandan and buri palm leaves, with different regions developing unique styles of weaving and embroidery, and mats being used for various purposes from sleeping mats to decorative art; mat weaving in places like Laminusa, Basey, and the Sulu Islands is particularly renowned for its fine craftsmanship and incorporation of designs that have taken on new meanings over time.
Mat weaving has a long tradition across the Philippines using natural materials like pandan and buri palm leaves, with different regions developing unique styles of weaving and embroidery, and mats being used for various purposes from sleeping mats to decorative art; mat weaving in places like Laminusa, Basey, and the Sulu Islands is particularly renowned for its fine craftsmanship and incorporation of designs that have taken on new meanings over time.
Mat weaving has a long tradition across the Philippines using natural materials like pandan and buri palm leaves, with different regions developing unique styles of weaving and embroidery, and mats being used for various purposes from sleeping mats to decorative art; mat weaving in places like Laminusa, Basey, and the Sulu Islands is particularly renowned for its fine craftsmanship and incorporation of designs that have taken on new meanings over time.
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MAT WEAVING
Originally written by Alice G. Guillermo
Updated by Alden Q. Lauzon (1991) Published 2017 in the 2nd edition of the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art (Volume 5 on Visual Arts), 204-206
Report notes prepared by Alexandra Jamison, ADT12-2
1Sem 2019-2020, PUP Sta. Mesa •Definition: Mat weaving (204)
• All regions have tradition of mat weaving
• Used as bedding material • Cool and suitable for hot climate • Ecologically healthy, light and portable sleeping surface • Mats are space saver • Most are made of the leaves of pandan or buri palm (linear patterns) https://previews.123rf.com/images/waraphot/war aphot1708/waraphot170800502/84871634- https://drfarrahcancercenter.com/wp- pandan-leaves.jpg content/uploads/2015/10/buri-1.jpg
Pandan leaves Buri palm
Mat Weaving (204) • Capiz and Aklan- simple and delicate, geometric designs on boarders • Laguna- plain and simple brown • Woman’s work • Stripped, boiled, dyed and woven • Quality judged from it’s softness, fineness and design patterns • Mats used as of exchange in barter • Wedding rituals and festive occassions • Southern weavers- smaller, prayer mats or household decorations Mat Weaving (204-205) 19th century and in early decades of 20th century • “Recuerdo,” “Souvenir,” “Alaala” (remembrance) and “Mr and Mrs” • Bordered with floral or geometric designs • Double mats Mat weaving (205) Island of Laminusa off the coast of Siasi Sulu • Women of Samal group (utmost skill and artistry) • Laminusa mats – pandanus fibers , soft and pliable, crumple without creasing, often mistaken as woven cloth • Tapestries used as wall decors https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products • Maluy Lasa Sambolani - /2017/10/21/laminusa_mat_baby_size_1508592463 _db8ec770.jpg 1990 Manlilikha ng Bayan awardee Laminusa mat Mat weaving (205-206) Basey,Samar • Basey mat- tikog and buri • Embroidery • Green, red, yellow, various shades of pink, and yellow green • Embroiderer – usually a women • In the late 1970s – waling-waling flower, maps of the Philippines, maps of Leyte and Samar, and birds such as peacocks • 1990s – images of the Santo Niño, San Juanico Bridge and flowers • Balyuan Festival • Floral design • Combination of traditional weaving with changing popular notifs • 1993 – Benigno Aquino Jr’s portrait • Portrait or newlyweds • Basey mats have assumed the function of paintings Mat weaving (206)
• Sizes of mats have become
more varied • Smaller mats –portraits and decorative designs, flowers • Mats are framed with bamboo and hung like paintings • Mat weavers and embroiderers –mutually independent • Decorative mats –broadened (bags and pillow covers) https://www.sunstar.com.ph/uploads/im ages/2018/10/02/91839.jpg • Sets mark on interior design - limited scale Basey mat Source: Lauzon, Alden Q. et al. “Mat weaving.” In N. Guillermo (ed.), CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art Volume 5 on Visual Arts, 2nd ed. Pasay City: Cultural Center of the Philippines, 2017. 204-206. Print.
