Hand Y Craft

Hand Y Craft
A weaving of a partnership between the YES-Deaf and BUKAL Cooperative.

Hand Y Craft is a showcase of traditional to modern application of Filipino embroidery techniques in clothes. Women embroiderers from Lumban, Laguna embroidered intricate designs in traditional barongs and T-shirts to be modeled by Deaf students of the School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies (SDEAS).

Hand Y Craft aims to open up livelihood opportunities and sustainable
business practice for local artisans of Lumban while staying true to their
traditions, culture and heritage.

The Youth Entreployment Support for the Deaf (YES-Deaf) Project of SDEAS with the Deaf Benildeans Multi-purpose Cooperative serves as the marketing arm of BUKAL Koop for their embroidery products.

Special guest is Mr. Rick Bennet who served as consultant for a similar socially responsive art & design project launched in May 2008 called
[re]frame Manila. The artwork is now on display at the foyer of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts Building.

About Rick Bennet
Rick Bennet is the founder and director of the Omnium Research Group and a professor of the College of Fine Arts in the University of New South Wales. Omnium is engaged in projects that are of community,
environment and social benefit including design work created for aid and support of Sri Lanka, Timor Leste and Kenya. He is also a visiting professor of the School for Design and Arts at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. As visiting professor, he was involved in the [re]frame Manila project, that brings traditional embroidery process into a new and modern context.

About BUKAL Koop
Bayanihan sa pagpaUnlad ng Kabuhayan at Lapian Multipurpose
Cooperative (Cooperation towards the development of livelihood and
organization) is a cooperative established by SADAMALU, Pinagkaisahang Magbuburda ng Lumban (PML), and the Business Skills Development and Resource Center (Microfinance Program of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde)

About the Deaf Benildeans Multi-purpose Cooperative
DBMC is the cooperative of students and alumni from the School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. Currently, they operate a coffee shop inside the campus and is the
marketing center of products created and developed by the Deaf. They are the beneficiaries of the Youth Entre-ployment Support for
the Deaf (YES-Deaf) Project, a project funded by AusAID’s
Philippines-Australia Community Assistance
Program (PACAP).