Sleeveless Pinang Ilokana Dress

Early in 2025, I returned to Ilocos with my family to celebrate my eldest daughter’s birthday. I was there with my mother, my siblings, and our entire family—moving together through grief after my father’s passing. It was a journey meant to soften loss, to witness how love ebbs and flows when held over decades.

We brought my mother back to places in Ilocos Sur where her family’s roots begin. Along the way, we encountered weaving traditions and pottery practices that carry quiet resilience—craft shaped by time, land, and care.

Pinang was my father’s playful term of endearment for my mother. This dress is a love letter to the relationship I witnessed between them—a love expressed not loudly, but through steadiness, humor, and devotion.

Binakol patterns are intentionally dizzying, traditionally found among communities in Abra and Ilocos in Northern Philippines, believed to confuse negative energies through optical rhythm.

The Kantarines design draws inspiration from woven banig mats—familiar, grounding, and deeply domestic.

Woven textiles are sourced from our partner weavers in Paoay, Ilocos Norte and Bangar, La Union.

This piece holds memory, movement, and love—stitched into something meant to be worn in the present.

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