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Arts And: Patadyong (Panay Island)

The document summarizes key cultural aspects of Region 7 - Central Visayas in the Philippines, including: 1) Traditional clothing like the patadyong skirt and piña weaving made from pineapple leaves. 2) Artisanal products like capiz shell used for decorative items and banig mats handwoven from leaves. 3) Festivals celebrating culture and history, such as the Ati-Atihan Festival in Kalibo honoring acceptance of Christianity and the MassKara Festival in Bacolod celebrating overcoming economic hardship.

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Arts And: Patadyong (Panay Island)

The document summarizes key cultural aspects of Region 7 - Central Visayas in the Philippines, including: 1) Traditional clothing like the patadyong skirt and piña weaving made from pineapple leaves. 2) Artisanal products like capiz shell used for decorative items and banig mats handwoven from leaves. 3) Festivals celebrating culture and history, such as the Ati-Atihan Festival in Kalibo honoring acceptance of Christianity and the MassKara Festival in Bacolod celebrating overcoming economic hardship.

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REGION 7- CENTRAL VISAYAS

Arts and
o Patadyong (Panay Island)
is an indigenous Philippine rectangular or tube-like
wraparound skirt worn by both men and women of the
Visayas islands and the Sulu Archipelago, similar to the
Malong, or Sarong. It was also historically worn in parts of
Luzon like Pampanga and Sorsogon.
In the precolonial era, it was usually worn with a barú or
bayú, a simple collar-less shirt or jacket with close-fitting
long sleeves. During the Spanish period, this evolved into
the kimona, a variant of the baro't saya worn by
Christianized Visayan lowlanders consisting of a loose
translucent blouse, an undershirt, and a patadyong or a
patadyong-patterned skirt
o Piña Weaving (Panay
Piña weaving isIsland)
a traditional Philippine fiber made from
pineapple leaves. Pineapples were widely cultivated in the
Philippines since the 17th century for weaving lustrous lace-like
luxury textiles known as nipis fabric. The name is derived from
Spanish piña, meaning "pineapple". Kalibo, Aklan, is the main
and the oldest manufacturer/weaver of piña cloth in the
Philippines which are being exported to various parts of the
world most particularly North America, and Europe Piña
weaving is an age-old tradition which was recently revived in the
past 20 years.

Pineapple silk was considered the queen of Philippine fabrics


and is considered the fabric of choice of the Philippine elite.
During the 1996 APEC summit held in the Philippines, world
leaders donned barong tagalog made of piña sourced from
Kalibo during the group photo. Producers include La Herminia
Piña Weaving Industry, Malabon Pina Producers and Weavers
Association, Reycon's Piña Cloth and Industry, and Rurungan sa
Tubod Foundation.
o Capiz Shell (Panay
Island)
The windowpane oyster a.k.a Capiz Shell is a bivalve
marine mollusk in the family of Placunidae.They are
edible, but valued more for their shells (and the rather
small pearls). The shells have been used for thousands
of years as a glass substitute because of their durability
and translucence. More recently, they have been used
in the manufacture of decorative items such as
chandeliers and lampshades; in this use, the shell is
known as the capiz or kapis. Capiz shells are also used
as raw materials for glue, chalk and varnish.
Distribution extends from the shallows of the Gulf of
Aden to around the Philippines, where it is abundant in
the eponymous province of Capiz. The mollusks are
found in muddy or sandy shores, in bays, coves and
lagoons to a depth of about 100 m (330 ft).
o Banig
A baníg is a handwoven mat usually used in East Asia and
the Philippines for sleeping and sitting. This type of mat
is traditionally made in the Philippines.
Technically, it is not a textile. Depending on the region of
the Philippines, the mat is made of buri (palm),
pandanus or sea grass leaves. The leaves are dried,
usually dyed, then cut into strips and woven into mats,
which may be plain or intricate.
The Samal of Sulu usually make their mats out of buri
leaves. Mats from Basey, Samar use tikog leaves which
are dyed in strong colours to make beautiful, unique
designs. Banig mats from Bukidnon are made from
sodsod grass, a ribless reed endemic to the area.
Festivals
o Ati-atihan Festival (Kalibo)
The Ati-Atihan Festival is a Philippine festival held annually in January in
honor of the Santo Niño (Holy Child or Infant Jesus) in several towns of
the province of Aklan, Panay Island. The biggest celebration is held
during the third Sunday of January in the town of Kalibo, the province’s
capital. The name Ati-Atihan means "to imitate Ati", the local name of
the Aeta people, the first settlers of Panay Island and other parts of the
archipelago. The festivity was originally a pagan celebration to
commemorate the Barter of Panay, where the Aeta accepted gifts from
Bornean chieftains called Datu, who fled with their families to escape a
tyrannical ruler, in exchange for being allowed to dwell in the Aeta’s
lands. They celebrated with dancing and music, with the Borneans
having painted their bodies with soot to show their gratefulness and
camaraderie with the Aeta who had dark skin. Later on, the festivity was
given a different meaning by the church by celebrating the acceptance of
Christianity, as symbolized by carrying an image of the Holy Child or
Infant Jesus during the procession.
o Masskara Festival
(Bacolod)
The MassKara Festival (Hiligaynon: Pista sang MassKara,
Filipino: Pista ng MassKara) is an annual festival with
highlights held every fourth Sunday of October in Bacolod,
Philippines. The most recent festival was held from October
8–27, 2019. The festival sites include the Bacolod Public
Plaza, the Lacson Tourism Strip and the Bacolod Government
Center.
The Festival first began in 1980 during a period of crisis. The
province relied on sugar cane as its primary agricultural crop
and the price of sugar was at an all-time low due to the
introduction of sugar substitutes like high fructose corn syrup
in the United States. This was the first MassKara Festival and
a time of tragedy; on April 22 of that year, the inter-island
vessel MV Don Juan carrying many Negrenses, including
those belonging to prominent families in Bacolod City,
collided with the tanker Tacloban City and sank in Tablas
Strait off Mindoro while en route from Manila to Bacolod,
which resulted in 18 lives lost, and 115 missing.

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