Refashioning Contemporary Philippine Piña Textiles

Travelling neoliberal models of governance often promote policies favouring large scale development projects that fail the needs of those engaged in small-scale cultural production such as textiles. In the Philippines to address this lack of formal institutional support, textile artisans and entrepreneurs, who are primarily women, draw on their local skilly in cloth production to enter the glbal economy more on their own terms. This is particularly evident in the piña (pineapple) textile industry largely uniqu to Kalibo, Aklan, central Philippines. Here, artisans incorporate contemporary design and colours that while rooted in specific regional textile origins also procalim a modernity that responds to shifting trends,

Dr Lynne Milgram is Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor (Anthropology) in theFaculty of Arts & Science, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada.

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