Various regions of the Philippines are known for intricately woven materials, ranging from the pinya cloth, a sheer fabric made of fibers of the leaf of the pineapple plant, as woven in my home province ofAklan, to the sturdy sawali, a paneling of bamboo strips woven together to make the walls of a nipa hut, to colorful tapestries and waist cloths of different tribes handloomed from decidedly Western materials of mercerized cotton threads. I tried to recreate these different woven textures and shapes by computer graphics and this section is the humble fruit of my primitive renderings. The title hugis kutis is a play of the Filipino words for shape (hugis) and complexion (kutis).
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