Ernesto learned to weave from his mother on a pedal loom that is still in use. He leads a cooperative of thirty weavers and works with designers who want to use inabel without flattening it into a print.
- Role
- Master weaver
- Organisation
- Paoay Inabel Weavers
- Based in
- Paoay, Ilocos Norte
Ernesto Galang
Has woven inabel for fifty years and taught most of the weavers in his town.
At Likha 2027
Made here: fifty years at the loom
Ernesto Galang
Workshop: read and draw an inabel pattern
Ernesto Galang, Isabel Cruz
Cooperatives that work
Ernesto Galang, Liza Mendoza
Closing: what we make together
Isabel Cruz, Ernesto Galang