craftsthatmakesense

[craftsthatmakesense]

Undervalued crafts have their own uniqueness. In our baranggay, there’s a store or more likely a house where they make crafts just like “sug-angan” in bisaya term or stove in English.

Do you have dirty kitchen? If you have, then this is what you’re using as a stove. I know a lot of us are using the electric stove or the stove that lit a fire and it’s convenient for us to make our cooking faster. But now let us appreciate the past.

I clear memory on my mind the days when we still can’t afford the gasul, I think it’s during my elementary days. We were still living in my grandparents house and in the past, “sug-angan” is popular for them to use while cooking in their dirty kitchen. It’s not easy to use it because you need all of your energy to lit a fire using logs, coconut husk or dried coconut leaves. Specially, when it is raining and you haven’t prepared or take your “igsulognod” inside your house. You don’t have anything to eat in the morning because you can’t cook since all of the logs are wet. It’s funny when I remembered it but during those days it was really hard for us. Moreover, the people that make this things were so skilled. It is not easy to make since it needs days and days to make and you’ll have to wait and let it dry.

This is not a way to encourage you to have a dirty kitchen but to let you remind about our past. Lots of indigenous crafts were introduced in the past because it is there way of living. We can’t make fun of this crafts because it helped our ancestors to survive and without them we are not here today. We’re lucky because most of the children now don’t experience the hardships of the past.

All we need to do is to appreciate the indigenous crafts and their uniqueness. We should be proud of it.