Yabing Masalon Dulo

Fu Yabing Masalon Dulo (born August 8, 1914) is a Filipino textile master weaver and dyer. She is credited with preserving the Blaan tradition mabal tabih art of ikat weaving and dying.[1] She is one of two surviving master designers left of the mabal tabih art of the indigenous Blaan people of Southern Mindanao in the Philippines.[2]

She was given the National Living Treasures Award by the Philippines through the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.[1]

Biography

Fu Yabing was born on  August 8, 1914, in Polomolok, South Cotabato.[2] She resides on Mount Matutum.[3] Fu Yabing began weaving at age 14.[4] Two of her tabih are considered masterpieces. One of these is displayed in the Philippine National Museum.[4]

To preserve the Blaan weaving tradition, Fu Yabing taught the craft of tabih to her only daughter Lamina Dulo Gulili and women in her community.[3]

She retired from weaving in 2018 after figuring in a motorcycle accident.[4]

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References
  1. "National Living Treasures: Yabing Masalon Dulo". NCCA. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  2. Espejo, Edwin (2014-10-21). "Artist, purist: Fu Yabing, the Blaan master weaver". Rappler. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  3. Villan, Tyne (2018-11-22). "These Mindanawon women weavers prove that textile weaving is still alive in the Philippines". InqPOP!. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  4. Ordoña, Alaska (2019-06-08). "Y-Speak: Dreaming the weave, weaving the dream". Sunstar. Retrieved 2020-07-15.


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