“When we support weaving, we empower our farmers, artisans, and communities. This is not fashion—this is livelihood, identity, and history,” said Senator Loren Legarda, highlighting the importance of having a handloom weaving center.
The senator also shared that she is set to refile the Philippine Handloom Weaving Industry Development Act. The measure aims to institutionalize the weaving program under the DOST-PTRI, ensuring long-term government support for local textile innovation, training and market development.
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00:00So today we celebrate the threads that bind our culture, resilience, artistry, and history
00:07as Filipinos.
00:08As we inaugurate the Philippine Handloom Weaving Center, and note that I have a bill and I
00:14refiled it for the handloom weaving industry of the Philippines so we can enact it into
00:20law.
00:21So it is institutionalized, way beyond my term as Senator and Julius' term as head
00:27of PTRI.
00:28Yes.
00:29So we will, okay, we are going, it says here, in this third round of filing a 20th Congress,
00:37it's an act providing for the development and protection of the Philippine Handloom Weaving
00:43Industry.
00:44It was filed in the 19th Congress, it was not, it was not given special treatment or priority
00:51because not everyone really understands, not everyone supports or recognizes.
00:58They might think it's a fashion thing which definitely is not. That's why I keep on saying this goes
01:04beyond fashion or everyday wear. It's really livelihood up to the farmers. That's why when we go,
01:11but the next day, I'll be able to do all of you think about this is a change. It's been ooh, it's a
01:26thing that we're going to be able to have an apple, it's a thing in the community. It's good for the
01:26farmers. It's a thing that we're going to have to do with it. As an animal, it's a thing that's
01:29a thing that's a thing that we want to have to do with us today. It's a thing that's an
01:31We are not only breathing life into our weaving industry, we also continue to provide a lifeline to our weavers and our farmers.
01:54Bidigyan natin ang pag-asa ang mga komunidad na walang pagod na nagtataguyod sa ating kultura, ang mga kamay na patuloy na humahabi hindi lamang ng tela kundi ng mga kwento ng ating nakaraan.
02:09Nagsisilping pag-asa para sa kinabukasan at nagiging daan para sa mas maayos na kabuhayan.
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