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• Kedungon or Abaca


  Harvesting of the abaca and the stripping of the fibers
• Tembong or Connecting


  Segregating and connecting the fibers from end to end
• Semdang or Setting


  Preparing the fibers on the loom for knotting
• Mebed or Designing


  Knotting the fibers prior to resist-dying
• Temogo or Dyeing and Hemto or Untying of knots


  1. Gathering and preparing the natural dyes

  2. Dyeing the wrap and untying the knots
• T'nalak


  Defined by using 3 traditional colors: black, red and white
• Mewel or Meaving


  Setting the dyed wrap on the back strap loom
• Semaki or Ironing


  Burnishing the surface of T'nalak