TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES

• TECHNIQUE is the manner in which artist use and manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal effect and communicate the desired concept or meaning according to his or her personal style.
• WOOD CARVING a technique encompassing any form of working wood with a tool into some of aesthetic object.
• MOLDING a technique of shaping liquid or pliable material such as clay.
• INCISED DESIGNS Among the finest of early Philippine pottery designs are footed dishes that were decorated with geometric cut-outs, molding, cording or finger impressions, most of these were made in Batangas.
• TEXTILE HAND-WEAVING is one of the most attractive and interesting traditional crafts of the Philippines, imbued with romanticism and laden with cultural significance.
• FABRIC WEAVING is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.
• “Abel” or “inabel” is a fabric customarily made of cotton fiber turned into spools of beeswax-brushed yarn and woven in a handloom.
• PLAITING TECHNIQUE interweaving or braiding two or more strands, fibers, etc.
• TWINING TECHNIQUE this is a weaving technique where two or more flexible weaving elements (“weavers”) cross each other as they weave through the stiffer radial spokes