BAGUIO CITY – Mountain Province Gov. Bonifacio Lacwasan Jr. has ordered the immediate enforcement of a new ordinance banning the manufacture, sale, and distribution of machine-made replicas of indigenous woven fabrics and garments within the province. “We have to protect our woven fabric, which...
SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERS From left Dan Mejia, H&M South Asia’s regional head of communications and PR, Swedish Ambassador Annika Thunborg, and Jonjon San Agustin, SM Supermalls senior vice president for marketing at the launch of Fashion Forever in SM Aura The global fashion industry is at a...
Content creator Kyle Jennermann, popularly known as Kulas, took his oath of allegiance to the Republic of the Philippines at the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Sept. 13. Image from BecomingFilipino Facebook page (MANILA BULLETIN) In a Facebook post, Kulas expressed how...
CAVITE – An upland municipality in a mountainous area, Maragondon is known for its bamboo products and traditional hand-woven garments. Both industries, however, may not have always been progressive over the past decades. Likhang Maragondon, a local social enterprise, is trying to change that...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Tan If you live in or have been to Baguio City, you’ve probably heard of or visited Narda’s Handwoven Arts and Crafts, a Benguet institution. The company is named after its founder, Leonarda “Narda” Capuyan, an Igorot entrepreneur who helped popularize Cordillera’s...
Researchers from the Department of Science and Technology- Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOST-PTRI) have developed sustainable natural textile materials from bamboo. Pretreated Bamboo Textile Fiber (Photo courtesy of DOST-PTRI) The DOST-PTRI said the production of greener bamboo textile...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is eyeing to produce water-repellent, antiviral, and re-wearable textile fabric for face masks and protective apparels in response to the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Proposed prototype of PROTex face mask (DOST-PTRI) The...
It's time to bring those design sketches to life! Have you ever dreamed of wearing your own design? You have this eye for great style with a knack for illustration to match it to make that dream a possibility. But there's one problem, you don't know how to sew. Northernloom's abel garments Sewing...
The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Textile Research and Development Institute (DOST-PTRI) has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Carolina Bamboo Garden in Antipolo City to pursue research and development (R&D) on the use of bamboo as “potential” textile raw...
42% laid off workers Majority or 90.9 percent of companies are just operating at certain capacity while 42.4 percent have laid off employees either temporarily or permanently, according to a survey conducted by the Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. (PhilExport). The PhilExport Survey on the...
Catriona Gray Catriona Gray has new task to fulfill as ambassador of Philippines' One Town One Product (OTOP) Program. Through the initiative, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will bring attention to the Modernong Obra Disenyong Atin (MODA). Part of Catriona's job is to promote...
