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These Filipina Creatives Designed Their Own Banig Laptop Sleeves

These Filipina Creatives Designed Their Own Ban...

Bananas, mountains, and fiestas - what do all of these have in common? They all served as inspiration for designs that now adorn the banig laptop sleeves of three Filipino creatives....

These Filipina Creatives Designed Their Own Ban...

Bananas, mountains, and fiestas - what do all of these have in common? They all served as inspiration for designs that now adorn the banig laptop sleeves of three Filipino creatives....

The Craft of Waiting

The Craft of Waiting

I watch as ate Arlene slips dyed buri strips into the eye of a long, flat needle – pahot, the Waray call it – then pushes it into a sliver of space in the banig mat, where the weft...

The Craft of Waiting

I watch as ate Arlene slips dyed buri strips into the eye of a long, flat needle – pahot, the Waray call it – then pushes it into a sliver of space in the banig mat, where the weft...