OUR COLLECTION — ASIA — PHILIPPINES 158. BROOM NATIVITY
This Nativity of the Holy Family is made from pine needles, with carved wood faces and hands, secured to a wooden base. The standing figures measure 10.5 inches tall.
The Women’s Multipurpose Cooperative was started to create jobs for people who moved into the area around Baguio City, Philippines hoping to work in the copper and gold mines. The women are skilled weavers, using mostly backstrap and upright wooden looms. They also create crocheted and knitted items, recycled baskets from newspaper, as well as Christmas decorations made of pine needles and baskets indigenous to the communities. The Women’s Multipurpose Cooperative helps women work together in groups, obtain government help in skills training, buy raw materials, provide an access to low interest loans to capitalize the industry and obtain titles to their land.
The Women’s Multipurpose Cooperative was started to create jobs for people who moved into the area around Baguio City, Philippines hoping to work in the copper and gold mines. The women are skilled weavers, using mostly backstrap and upright wooden looms. They also create crocheted and knitted items, recycled baskets from newspaper, as well as Christmas decorations made of pine needles and baskets indigenous to the communities. The Women’s Multipurpose Cooperative helps women work together in groups, obtain government help in skills training, buy raw materials, provide an access to low interest loans to capitalize the industry and obtain titles to their land.