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Habi market fair seeks revival country’s weaving tradition

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The recent held Likhang Habi Market Fair at Glorietta was an indication that there is a growing market the country’s weaving tradition that makes beautiful and labor-intensive products mostly by various indigenous tribes using locally sourced natural materials like cotton, piña and abaca.

Launched in 2009, the three-day annual textile fair provided a venue for traditional weavers and embroiderers from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao to showcase their products, touch base with old customers and develop new clientele.

Habi opens its annual Likhang Habi market fair at Glorietta

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HABI, the Philippine Textile Council, opens its annual Likhang Habi Market Fair featuring products made from traditional Philippine textiles at the Glorietta 2 Activity Center in Makati. The fair will run from Oct. 23 to 25.

Likhang Habi Market Fair designed by Philippine textile council to push its hand weaving tradition

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Habi the Philippines Textile Council became an independent organization of its own since its 2009 partnership with the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, centers its mission on sustaining traditional textiles through research and education.

Weaving in the Philippines has a history that goes back to prehistory. It has a meager existence in today’s world, where the majority of Philippine textile products are made or sourced abroad, and the communities who carried out hand-weaving traditions due to poverty watch their cultural traditions fade.

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