The piña cloth is a light fabric popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unique to the Philippines and has been used to make traditional garments for centuries. The fabric is ...

KALIBO, Aklan (PIA) — The Provincial Government of Aklan brought for the first time the “Hinuguran it Akeanon” (the Aklanon’s labor) to the prestigious ArteFino Fair – a premier trade platform that ...

AKLAN, Philippines – Aklan’s piña handloom weaving has received official recognition from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The province’s unique craft ...

The NCCA calendar features the different steps and stages in making the textile—from cultivating the pineapples and extracting the fibers to weaving the fine threads using the handloom and ...

MANILA (Reuters Life!) - It takes one whole month to create one meter (yard) of pineapple cloth, an exotic fabric spun from the tropical fruit by weavers in the central Philippine province of Aklan.