19/01/2026
Grabbed from my daughter's post.
HAYNAKO HERE WE GO AGAIN.
โ ๏ธ: Long caption hahaha sorry naiinis ako e
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It is deeply disgusting and makapa insulto to see a page call itself "The Igorot" while showing such blatant IGNORANCE toward the soul of our culture. To the creator of this post: you claim our name, yet you are actively undermining the very hands that keep our heritage alive.
There is a sacred, heavy hardship in real weaving. This is a truth known by every weaver in the Cordillera and across the world who spends weeks hunched over a loom. They do not just produce. They bleed their time and their health into every thread. Their art is born from callouses, aching backs, and a level of patience that a printer will never possess. A machine can mimic a pattern, but it can never replicate a pulse.
On a personal level, this is beyond heartbreaking. It is insulting. My family owns a weaving shop, Rose Ann's Fabric Gallery, and I see the reality behind the thread every single day. My mom is the heartbeat of our designs. She does not just make patterns. She draws inspiration from our environment, our mountains, and our life here to create something original and meaningful. To see her vision and the work of our weavers and sewers flattened into a cheap digital print is a slap in the face.
This is not the first time this has happened. Whether it is people hitting print on a heritage they did not earn or other shops shamelessly copying my momโs original woven designs, it is a betrayal of our craft. If you truly cared about being "The Igorot," you would honor MP Ordinance No. 573. This law was created to protect our culture from this exact type of exploitation.
You can copy the silhouette. You can copy the pattern. You can even use our name for clout. However, you will never have the dignity of the people who actually know how to weave our story into reality. Stop calling yourselves "The Igorot" when you are the ones killing our industry.
YUCK!
LINK:
https://www.facebook.com/share/17sBcmnJiG/?mibextid=wwXIfr