Meet the queen of Buscalan in the Cordillera mountains, and the master weaver of Lake Sebu: two craftswomen most deserving of our highest regard this Women's Month and beyond.

"The Filipinos are extremely capable in any handicraft-there are excellent embroiderers, painters, silversmiths, and engravers whose work has no equal in the Indies, and could be considered elegant in Paris and Rome," wrote the Spanish Jesuit priest and cartographer Murillo Velarde in his 10-volume series on world geography entitled Geografia história (1752).

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