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LANG DULAY

CRAFTS

               Lang Dulay’s craft is weaving, weaving tnalak or Tboli cloth to be exact. There are a few weavers left in the tribe of Tboli due to the fact that weaving in the ways of the Tboli tribe is a tedious process and it begins with stripping the stem of the abaca plant to get the fibers, to coaxing even finer fibers for the textile, then drying the threads and tying each strand by hand. Afterward, there is the delicate task of setting the strands on the “bed-tying” frame made of bamboo, with an eye towards deciding which strands should be tied to resist the dye. It is the bud or tying of the abaca fibers that define the design.
 
            As stated before Lang Dulay prefers traditional design patterns but she knows hundreds of these patterns and some examples of this are bulinglangit (clouds), the bankiring (hair bangs), and the kabangi (butterfly), each one special for the stories it tells. Using red and black dyes, she spins her stories with grace. Her textiles reflect the wisdom and the visions of her people.

NOTABLE WORKS

          Lang Dulay, one of the Philippines' National Living Treasures, is an acknowledged master of T’nalak weaving who knows more than a hundred designs including the bulinglangit (clouds), the bankiring (hair bangs), and kabangi (butterfly). Known as “The Dreamweaver,” Dulay developed and mastered the now famous and beautiful T’nalak cloth of South Cotabato’s T’boli tribe. In 1998, Lang Dulay received the National Living Treasure (Manlilikha ng Bayan) award from the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) for her contribution in the preservation of their culture and for her fine craftsmanship of the delicate abaca fibers.

M’ BAGA DUN

It captures the rhythm and calm of a mother singing lullaby to her child

BED BWENGKEL

It Bwengkel means “Crocodile”, and this T’nalak pattern recalls the story of how one of the smaller lakes came to be

LEL ALAH
(STREAM OR FLOW OF THE ALAH RIVER)

GEMEWET
(INTERCONNECTEDNESS OR CONNECTIONS)

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