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The wooden angels and cherub was heavy causing the carvings to fall. Piday devised the lightweight taka papier-mâché as an alternative to the wooden sculptures. Piday was also a maker of local toys such as the yoyo and the small acrobat hand puppet. Taka eventually became folk art and was sold to nearby towns for festivals. In the 1970s, Tere ...
Papier-mâché found in the DIY taka workshop kit created by the Adao Family from Paete, Laguna. Papier-mâché, locally referred to as taka, is a known folk art of the town of Paete, [58] the Carving Capital of the Philippines. It is said that the first known taka "was wrapped around a mold carved from wood and painted with decorative pattern ...
The taka is a type of paper mache art native to Paete in the Philippines. Folk art objects are usually produced in a one-off production process. Only one object is made at a time, either by hand or in a combination of hand and machine methods, and are not mass-produced. As a result of manual production, individual pieces are considered to be ...
[198] [199] [200] Paper arts are common in many communities; examples include the taka papier-mâché of Laguna and the pabalat of Bulacan. [201] A form of leaf-folding art is puni, which uses palm leaves to create forms such as birds and insects. [201]
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