How much would you pay for the finest Panama hat in the world, handmade by the finest Panama hat-maker in the world? $5000? $20,000? $50,000? It’s a real question hanging in the air, as a ...

hat weaving with a 10-day festival. According to the book “Baliwag Then and Now” by Rolando Villacorte, buntal hat weaving started in this town sometime between 1907 and 1909 when Mariano Deveza ...

BALIUAG, Bulacan, Philippines—Australian exporters have discovered the Buntal hats produced by the “Weaving Inmates of Bulacan,” providing them the international attention which the town’s last Buntal ...

Photo taken on Oct. 16, 2022 shows bamboo bags woven by Tan Sujuan, an inheritor of the Maonan bamboo hat weaving technique of the Maonan ethnic group in Huanjiang Maonan autonomous county, south ...