Time of Giving

The the holiday season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate the time of giving than by purchasing beautiful handmade accessories as gifts for friends and loved ones. These handmade creations come with an advocacy of helping talented Filipino women from marginalised sectors of society. Our business partner and supporter based in the USA, Michelle Denisoff, will be joining a series of trade shows in Ohio and Los Angeles to share with her community the products made by mothers and out of school youth from urban and rural poor communities in the Philippines.   

Among the designs that will be showcased in these series of trade shows are: 

DALOY Collection

This collection is based freehand beading, not following any patterns, with the use of recycled materials unto the felt cloth. Unlike our other designs, which we usually sketch before proceeding to actual bead embroidery, this set  requires full utility of an artisan's needle skills. She must also tap into her design skills, with a little imagination, so as to be able to come up with a balanced design using materials of different texture and size. In making these necklaces, creativity and mastery of materials, including colour schemes, are brought into play and challenged, when doing free flowing designs. 

ALITAPTAP Collection

 

"Alitaptap" is a Filipino word which means firefly. People who are accustomed to city life are deprived of chance to see these magical creatures. During our visit to one of the far-flung provinces in the Philippines, the presence of fireflies on a nightly basis was a surreal experience . Their beauty bordered on the ethereal,  inspiring us in this collection. We used gem acrylic beads to capture the likeness of its glow, with acrylic crystals as accents, finished with braided satin to form the necklace. 

EL NIDO- LIKHA Collection

The Philippines has a wide talent pool of skilled and artistic workers. Handcrafting has been in the culture and tradition of Filipinos, even before the Spanish colonial era. As the nation shifted to industrialisation and modernity, the value placed in handcrafting began to diminish. Advances in technology, communication, and appreciation for handmade works of art have opened opportunities for these Filipino women artisans to find an alternative means of livelihood with artistic skills developed through generations of handcrafting. 

This is a collection of bead embroidered pieces that were made by the participants of our informal workshop with selected women based in El Nido. The designs were inspired by El Nido's natural beauty from flowers to fallen leaves. 

SIBOL Collection

For these necklaces, we chose to incorporate brooch settings into the braided satin, as a breather from our heavy bead embroidery concept pieces. The brooch settings are hand stitched on a satin rope, embellished with acrylic crystals and faux pearls.

LAKBAY DULCE Collection

 

Marites Dulce is a mother from an urban poor community in Manila, who we trained to become a bead embroidery artisan. She handcrafted most of the pieces in our summer collection. We decided to use wood and cut beads as the main accents for these pieces. Marites has gone a long way in creating statement pieces, and in honour of her achievements as an unemployed housewife to a highly skilled women artisan,we named this collection after her.

HIRAYA Freeform Collection 

Doing freeform designs are the most difficult, but rewarding form of beading. Novie Katimpo, a high school graduate from a rural province in the Philippines who was sent to work as a housemaid, became our first in-house apprentice. After training for 5 years, she has accumulated knowledge with materials, as well as being able to mix and match them intuitively. We believe that to improve their skills, our artisans should be challenged with every project. Working freehand, without any guides and blueprints, allow them to develop their artistic vision and creativity.

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