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Baybayin Jewelry

Baybayin Jewelry


Posted on Sep 17, 2009 in BA, misc

The Babae Pendant (2002) “Woman” or Babae After Mary Ann Ubaldo(Urduja.com) taught me about baybayin,  I collaborated with her and together we designed this pendant together.  Each is custom-made, and as of this day, we probably only created 15 of them.  The baybayin symbols of this pendant are Ba at the outer shape,  another Ba in the negative space, and the E carved in it.  So for me...

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A Gift from Bahay Nakpil During my visit to the Bahay Nakpil Museum, I was generously bestowed a complimentary copy of the Doctrina Christiana as a gift from Tess. As I turned the pages they were so crisp and fresh that they still stuck together. I feel that I had to share this gift from Bahay Nakpil by showing you the cover and some pages of this special book… Thank you, dear Ate Tessie. Doctrina Christiana, en lengua española...

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Ambahan: Poetry in Baybayin


Posted on Sep 5, 2009 in misc

Ambahan is a poem with seven-syllable metric lines. Some historians believe that Filipino natives wrote such poems on leaves and wood pieces in baybayin. See the following for more on the ambahan: Cosmic in Scope tanglad.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/ambahan...

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