MSOpinion Ilocandia’s National Living Treasure: Piniliña master weaver I do not want to be buried (at the Libingan ng mga Bayani). I much prefer our place (in Pinili)
It’s four o’clock, almost two hours before the sun rises across the forested hills of Lumbaan-Bicbica, 10 kilometers from the town proper from whose municipal hall lounge one can have a glimpse of the rugged Ilocos shoreline.
The work of a Manlilikha ng Bayan is presumed to be an Important Cultural Property, second to National Cultural Treasure, the highest category of cultural property through Republic Act 10066, also known as the National Heritage Act of 2009. In a weekend interview, arranged through a common niece, master teacher Neclyn Galinato, we were able to get a better glimpse of the woman who started weaving at age nine after finishing grade 3 in nearby barangay Sacritan, in efforts to help her siblings – three girls and five boys – and her parents.
With her at the center are 12 women and a male weaver – relatives and neighbors — who are perpetuating and institutionalizing her winning design described as “Inubon a Sabong.” Buyers travel to Lumbaan-Bicbica through the cemented road from the town proper, only four kilometers from the MacArthur national highway that cuts through the Ilocos region from the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway.
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