via Inquirer, 12 January 2020: The Cordillera Textiles Project (CordiTex) by a group of scholars from the University of the Philippines (UP) Baguio.
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For the past three years, anthropologists, botanists, historians, mathematicians and even musicologists have been examining Cordillera textiles to see “how these have changed in the contemporary period,” Analyn Salvador-Amores, an anthropology professor, said in a paper she presented in November at the International Conference on Southeast Asian Crafts and Folk Art.
Amores leads the Cordillera Textiles Project (CordiTex), which found extant textiles that weavers had not produced for decades.
“The weaving knowledge of master weavers of the Cordillera are now elderly women, and the impact of oral tradition is now in a critical state and the tradition is in danger of being extinct,” said Rachel Kelly, a British researcher of Manchester Metropolitan University.
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