weaving
Yesterday I paid UFC Taekwondo, in the Porta Vaga Building of Baguio City, for another month of taekwondo training for Nick. This morning he came to the apartment to get money for jeepney fare so that he could go to into the city for taekwondo training. Dominic, Mack and I went to downtown Baguio City so that Dom and Mack could get haircuts and we could eat lunch.
After lunch, Dominic and I went on foot and by jeepney to visit Narda’s weaving and sewing factory and showroom beside Halsema Highway in La Trinidad. Afterward we to Easter Weaving Room’s factory and retail store aside Easter School Road in Baguio City. We enjoyed seeing the thread-dyeing process, warping thread, weaving on large, upright wood looms and sewing bags. I hadn’t known how Filipinas weaved Igorot skirts, table runners, place mats, napkins, coasters, decorative wall-hangings and more. Now I know. Dominic said that he can’t imagine weaving eight or more hours per day as those ladies do.
We marveled at the colors and patterns in the bolts of Igorot-weave cloth hung for sale. Easter Weaving Room, which is near an Episcopal church (and Easter College), sells inexpensive hand-woven, hand-embroidered deacons’ stoles, priests’ stoles, chasubles, altar frontispieces, lectern drapes, Holy Bible covers, bookmarks, luggage tags and other handicrafts which we haven’t seen elsewhere. — very interesting –
