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The centerpiece of the exhibition is the generous donation by Mercedes Zobel to the Ayala Museum, which consists of 111 textiles representing indigenous communities in the Philippines from the Cordilleras in northern Philippines and from Mindanao in the south, including the Muslim regions in Western Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago.

Mercedes Zobel hopes that the collection will inspire and rekindle interest in the living arts of the country. For her, textiles speak the “earliest language that expresses the beginnings of our culture.”

In collaboration with the Prince’s School of Traditional …