Comments on: Fab Fabrics: …Pineapple?

By: lumbanlagunamae

lumbanlagunamae — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:35:00 +0000

All of the fabrics in the background are made from pineapple fiber (+hand painting and hand embroidery) Enjoy!

By: lumbanlagunamae

lumbanlagunamae — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:33:00 +0000

Hi! I’m from the Embroidery Capital of the Philippines, Lumban, Laguna. You can check out our shop at http://www.pinaflorweddinggowns.blogspot.com or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pi%C3%B1aflor/135288823153566 this link on our Facebook Page. Suportahan ang Burdang Lumban. (Please Support Lumban Embroidery)

By: lumbanlagunamae

lumbanlagunamae — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:33:00 +0000

By: Akositsikenjoi

Akositsikenjoi — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Our town, Kalibo is known not only of Boracay but also weaving

Piña cloth…

By: Mae

Mae — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:44:21 +0000

oh here’s another pina wedding dress done by Veluz Reyes:

http://blogs.stylebible.ph/previewblog/tag/veluz-reyes/

By: Mae

Mae — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:39:37 +0000

I believe this designer uses pina all the time…she’s really good

http://veluzreyes.blogspot.com/

By: Lianne

Lianne — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:47:33 +0000

hellu, I am looking for canadian wholesalers of some organic cotton and hemp but am coming up rather empty. Any help would be greatly appreciated as i am moving my company to a 100% organic production.
cheers,
L.

By: Lody

Lody — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:12:58 +0000

I recommend both the sites mentioned by Netfah.

I’m a Filipina and just got back from 2 months trip from Philippines. My initial plan for the trip is to do an extensive research about the fine art of Philippine embroidery, particularly on pina cloth… but due to severe flooding while I was there, I decided to cancel my plans. However, I’ll still gonna do it on my next trip provided I’ll be there during summertime.

I managed to buy hankies made of pina cloth though for my stitching/embroidery friends who wanna feel the texture of pina cloth personally. The owner of Heritage Arts & Crafts is very friendly and will accomodate your queries. Too bad I didn’t able to meet her in person while I was there!

BTW, there are various places in the Philippines that manufacture pina cloth. The biggest one is in Aklan. As for the pina cloth embroiderers, the biggest community (as far as I know) is in Laguna (located in Southern Luzon) which unfortunately got flooded severely by typhoon Ondoy on September 26th.

Price-wise, pina cloth is expensive as it’s a high end material worn traditionally by prominent people. The best alternative for barong made of pina… is “jusi”.

By: Ask Netfah from J&O Fabrics

Ask Netfah from J&O Fabrics — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:07:57 +0000

Informative article. Always interesting to see Eastern influence on Western culture, especially in the world of fashion. There are a few native companies that specialize in pineapple fiber weaving/manufacturing and pinya/pinyaseda products. They include: http://www.heritagearts-craft.com and http://www.laherminiaweaving.com(both out of Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines)Check ‘em out sometime.

By: linda

linda — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:58:23 +0000

http://www.alibaba.com/product/enjoyie-11418241-10914620/Pina_Cloth_Hand_Embroidered.html

http://images.google.com/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&source=hp&q=Pi%C3%B1a+cloth&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=2lW5Sv6cJujBtwe87az6Dg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4

just google pina cloth -many hits !