The finest metal craftsman in the country



In Sombrero Island (Aborlan, Palawan), I noticed these two boys walking around holding on to the front part of their…

I thought it would be an interesting dynamic to set a budjang (lady) in her colorful, traditional Tausug habul and…

Kenneth Cobonpue. Award-winning designer and furniture maker. Well-known for quirky, nature-inspired handcrafted…

#ProjectLarawan. Profiles of the Filipino. One portrait at a time. Project Larawan is an initiative of Gabriel “Gabby”…

Mang Boy Molejon moved to Bataraza in southern Palawan in the mid-‘70s from Quezon Province. Back then, he would sell…
Eduardo Tubig Mutuc of Apalit, Pampanga, is the finest metal craftsman in the country and a Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan recipient. Tatay Eddie is a master of the age-old metal craft locally called “pinukpuk,” a practice by which designs are stamped on metal sheets as embellishments in religious articles like altar tables, candelabras and tabernacles.