Pina Weaving Contest 2018

The Lourdes Montinola
Piña Weaving Competition is on! The contest is open to all artisans regardless
of the location who weave, dye, embroider, or embellish piña, and get a chance
to win cash prizes!
Lourdes Montinola is the author of Piña which is
a seminal book presenting pineapple cloth as a national treasure. Her main goal
is to encourage young talents to take up piña weaving as a craft and vocation.
Through this competition, we will be able to revitalize piña cloth production
and stimulate fresh creativity expressed through new forms.
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Guidelines to follow:
1) A minimum requirement
The cloth to be entered into consideration for
the prizes has to be at least two (2) meters long. It can be longer. There is
no stricture about the width.
2) Quality of making
The cloth will be evaluated for excellence of
execution of the entire range of processes used; including the knotting of the
fiber itself; the control over the weaving tension (even if the intended
tension is to produce loose weave); the balance between the tensile strengths
of piña and other fibers that may be woven with the pineapple fiber to make the
cloth; the dyeing or other forms of coloring; the physical relationship of
embellishment to woven cloth; and so forth.
3) Quality of innovation and use of imagination
The cloth will be evaluated for the freshness
and excellence of the ways of handling piña as a material. Thus, the Award will
commend the creation of blends with other natural fibers (Musa textilis or abaka,
cotton, linen, ramie, silk and so forth, so long as piña makes up more than 50%
of the body of the cloth); of new possibilities for couture; and of new
procedures to be applied in the making of pineapple fiber cloth.
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Three awards will be given to artists and
artisans who work —singly or collaboratively—to create extraordinary piña cloth
on October 2018. The winning entries will be exhibited at the annual Likhang
HABI Market Fair at the Glorietta Activity Center from October 12 to 14, 2018.
Winning works will remain the property of their makers after HABI fully
documents them. Cash prizes are 50,000.00 Php. for first prize; 30,000.00 and
20,000.00 for second and third prizes.