That same year, the bakong fiber was featured on the pages of the maiden issue of Vogue Philippines, and, in September, the “Brakong” won the James Dyson Award.The Brakong, a breast prosthesis for ...

Nay Susing, with an amused smile on her face, expertly knots the fiber – thinner than a hair strand – until she ends up with almost two yards of coil. This, she says, is to prepare the ...

In recent years, however, the industry suffered from very low supply of the fiber and dwindling number of weavers who only earn as much as P300 a day for the difficult work which strains the eyes ...

‘Made in PHL’ fiber, coco products show potential. BusinessMirror; April 5, 2017; 6 minute read; In Photo: Pineapple plantation in the cool rolling hills of Tagaytay.

He explained what while the fiber is transparent, it also lends itself as well to layering. "For me, this idea of layering is like an accumulation of histories, of cultures,” Escamillan said.

The country’s pineapple-fiber production in 2016 declined by 27.1 percent to 5.79 metric tons (MT), from 7.95 MT recorded in 2015, according to data from the Philippine Fiber Development ...