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• Technique


  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 (modern, Neoclassic, etc.)
• Technique


  • The distinctive character or nature of the medium determines the technique. For example, stone is chiseled, wood is carved; clay is modeled and shaped, metal is cast, and thread is woven.
• Traditional techniques used by the Filipinos even from the past years are depicted in our painting, sculpture, dance, architecture, music, and even textile. It only proves that Filipinos like any other people in the world can be very proud of our Philippine arts
• Wood Carving


  A technique encompassing any form of working wood with a tool into some sort of aesthetic object
• Molding


  A technique of shaping liquid or pliable material such as clay. Traditional pottery making in the Philippines involves the method of molding. Pottery making in the Philippines is one of the longest traditions in Philippine art.
• Fabric Weaving


  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.

  
• Textile hand-weaving is one of the most attractive and interesting traditional crafts of the Philippines, imbued with romanticism and laden with cultural significance
• Abel or inabel


  A fabric customarily made of cotton fiber turned into spools of beeswax-brushed yarn & woven in a handloom

  
• Textiles in Mindanao are predominantly handwoven from abaca (musa textilis). Among the Moslems of Mindanao, the Magindanaon, Maranaw and Yakan continue the tradition of cotton and silk weaving.
• Basketry Technique


  There are four different types of basketry methods: coiling, plaiting, wickering, and twining. Some of the terms that are specific to basket weaving include loops, twining, ribs, and spokes.
• Common raw materials used in making baskets

  • Rattan
  • Abaca
  • Nito
  • Tikog
  • Buri
  • Bamboo
  • Pandan
  • Coconut leaves and sticks
  • Palm leaves
  • Beeswax
• Coiled basketry


  Using grasses, rushes and pine needles
• Plaiting technique

  Interweaving or braiding two or more strands, fibers, etc.
• Twining technique


  A weaving technique where two or more flexible weaving elements ("weavers") cross each other as they weave through the stiffer radial spokes, using materials from roots and tree bark