“Weaving the Past to the Future”
The Cordillera Textiles Project (CordiTex) is a multi-disciplinary research that combines different approaches in the social and natural sciences in analyzing traditional textiles, and how they are transformed in the contemporary period. The project is vigorously documenting textiles that can no longer be woven by local communities due to the demise of master weavers. CordiTex facilitates in the reconstruction of extant textiles to rejuvenate the interest in traditional weaving in the region. The project also aims to provide comprehensive and accurate anthropological and technical information about the Cordillera weaving tradition.
The long-term goal of CordiTex is to design concrete scientific protocols to improve product quality in the hope of producing textiles from locally available indigenous materials with the use of new technology that can preserve textile tradition.
About the CordiTex Project
The University of the Philippines Emerging Interdisciplinary Research (UP-EIDR) initially funded the project for Phases 1 and 2. For Phase 3, the UPD Office of the Chancellor Research Grant and the Office of former Senator Loren Legarda supports the project. The project is now in Phase 4, which aims to digitize extant Cordillera textiles, and reconstruction of textiles and renewing of the textiles by the community.
Researches
Brows the list of the project’s ongoing studies.
Education
Watch the CordiTex Textile Talks and other webinars here.
Textile Gallery
Explore our textile collection here.
Updates
Stay in the loop with CordiTex’s researches, events, and monthly talks.
Publications
Explore the CordiTex textile collection from the six provinces of the Cordilleras, namely: Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Mountain Province. Learn about their function, cultural significance, and iconography.
Cordillera Textiles
Read this week’s featured textile.